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On the recordJune 24, 2019
Disenfranchisement used to be relatively simple. In the first century, the law simply said that African Americans couldn't vote.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses historical disenfranchisement of African Americans.

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