Sentences with phrase «north black voting»

In the South, even gradual emancipation could no longer be openly discussed, and in the North black voting was curtailed in almost all the states where it had been permitted.

Not exact matches

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

The Civil Rights Bill had recently been passed by Congress, and, along with other students from the North, I was in Mississippi helping blacks register to vote.

But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a City Council seat in 2009.

Readers will easily connect with both Sunny (a white girl adjusting to a new, extended stepfamily) and Ray (an African American boy who is a harbinger of the «invaders» from the North who open a Freedom School, register blacks to vote, and try to integrate public venues).