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What does disfranchisement mean?

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In 1895 he delivered a moving speech before the South Carolina constitutional convention in a gallant but futile attempt to prevent the virtual disfranchisement of blacks.
The wholesale disfranchisement of Southern black voters occurred during these years, as did the rise and triumph of Jim Crow.
Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.
Blacks were barred from voting, and their disfranchisement allowed white politicians to keep white schools white and black schools shabby.
In 1832 the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
However, this gain was undermined in the South during the almost century-long Jim Crow era, when blacks suffered discrimination, disfranchisement and violence.

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