Black Mississippians’ right to vote has constantly been under threat. A recent bill that would restore voting rights to thousands died.
Terror, Murder and Jim Crow Laws: Inside Mississippi’s Racial Voter Intimidation HistoryTerror, Murder and Jim Crow Laws: Inside Mississippi’s Racial Voter Intimidation History by Daja E. Henry, The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today April 12, 2024 Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to vote remains in the state’s constitution.
How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today 1865 The Civil War ended, freeing enslaved people in Mississippi and starting the period known as Reconstruction. Enslaved Black people accounted for 55% of the state population in 1860. An illustration from an 1867 issue of Harper’s Weekly shows freedmen and U.S. Colored Troops veterans exercising their newly granted right to vote. CREDIT: A.R.
Field Secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi. President John F. Kennedy called for a civil rights bill in the wake of Evers’ murder and was assassinated months later. 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Council of Federated Organizations, a coalition of civil rights groups, led several large efforts, including the “Freedom Summer” of 1964, to boost statewide voter education and registration.
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