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. |