There are 2 article(s) tagged disenfranchisement:

• March 2022

  • U of M law professors file brief in voting rights restoration case

    Only nine states in the nation require former felons to pay off fines, fees or court costs before being allowed to vote again. Tennessee is one of them.

    By Yolanda Jones March 02, 2022

• November 2018

  • Suppression in disguise: What we can learn from 1960s Fayette County, Tennessee

    “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Shelby County v. Holder, a landmark decision that overturned a key provision of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and ended the enforcement of federal oversight of voting practices in states that have historically disenfranchised minority voters.

    By Nathaniel C. Ball November 09, 2018