The disfranchised Negro operates in many ways to depreciate the rights of the enfranchised Negro, and to draw him by the invisible threads of race kinship and of race prejudice toward if not quite within the zone of his own limitations and disabilities.
He explains how the disenfranchisement of some Black individuals affects the rights and status of enfranchised ones.
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