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administered by white staff in a discriminatory way. They succeeded in disenfranchising most of the black citizens, as well as many poor whites in the South...

Disenfranchised grief is a term coined by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka in 1989. This concept describes the fact that some forms of grief are not acknowledged on...

The Disfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland debated in 1727 and enacted in 1728, one of a series of Penal Laws, and prohibited...

when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. 1789 The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states...

Washington, D.C., residents are, on the federal level, politically disenfranchised since the city's residents do not have voting representation in Congress;...

population exterminated. Pol Pot was determined to keep his power and disenfranchise any enemies or potential threats, and thus increased his violent and...

with Mississippi, legislatures of ten of the eleven states passed disenfranchising constitutions, which had new provisions for poll taxes, literacy tests...

lit. лишение deprivation + -ец -ee; "disenfranchised"; plural lishentsy, Russian: лишенцы) was a disenfranchised person in Soviet Russia from 1918 to...

Following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, Democrats devised means of disenfranchising blacks, initially by physical intimidation and voter fraud, later by...

he blocked assembly elections and exacerbated the class divide by disenfranchising and restricting the movement of indentured servants, who made up around...

property franchise qualification and added an educational element, disenfranchising a disproportionate number of the Cape's non-white voters, and the Glen...

of writing about history are the primary focus, which includes the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, and the otherwise forgotten...

inevitably revolt against the bourgeoisie as their ranks swell with disenfranchised and disaffected people lacking all stake[clarification needed] in the...

Turkish Cypriots clashed over what Turks viewed as Greek efforts to disenfranchise them, and the governments of both Greece and Turkey intervened in Cypriot...

The second type of grief that can develop from an ambiguous loss is disenfranchised grief. It is also known as unrecognized grief because it often occurs...

years the number of seats varied only slightly, as constituencies were disenfranchised for corruption and the seats were re-allocated some time later (see...

African American representation in Congress, African Americans became disenfranchised and subject to Jim Crow laws, legislation that would persist until...

occurs by promoting the perpetration of criminal activities within a disenfranchised or oppressed demographic. Whilst early organized crime was dominated...

powerful women who had applied and, after five times applying, felt disenfranchised and backed off. [At that time] NASA was having their fifth or sixth...

ratio of states disenfranchising those convicted of crimes decreased; in the twentieth century, some categories of felons were disenfranchised while others...