Sentences with phrase «voted for segregation»

[And no, none in my family owned slaves or voted for segregation, or otherwise affirmed primitive values back in those dark days of old.]

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Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

With slavery a thing of the past, with segregation banned, with the right to vote for everyone, what is the problem?

Not long thereafter, Rosaleen is beaten to a pulp for trying to register to vote, for she is African - American and this is South Carolina in the Sixties, during the waning days of Jim Crow segregation.

Until the 1970's, white southerners who wanted to maintain legal segregation of the races and the option of private schools for their own children, and northern Catholics who sought support for parochial schools comprised large blocks of Democratic votes.