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How to use disfranchisement in a sentence

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Prisoners are subjugated to a situation of absolute disfranchisement and exploitation.
Blacks were barred from voting, and their disfranchisement allowed white politicians to keep white schools white and black schools shabby.
Eventually, such lack of ownership on the part of partner countries leads to a sense of disfranchisement and inaction.
Other factors included racial segregation, disfranchisement, and injustice in southern courts.
In 1832 the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
The 1,039,207 black citizens were adversely affected by segregation and efforts at disfranchisement.
Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.
The wholesale disfranchisement of Southern black voters occurred during these years, as did the rise and triumph of Jim Crow.
However, this gain was undermined in the South during the almost century-long Jim Crow era, when blacks suffered discrimination, disfranchisement and violence.
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 Whig Lord John Russell brought forward one such measure in 1820, proposing the disfranchisement of the notoriously corrupt borough of Grampound in Cornwall.
Tories in the House of Lords agreed to the disfranchisement of the borough, but refused to accept the precedent of directly transferring its seats to an industrial city.
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