Effort Quote by Alex Padilla

During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes…

— Michelle Alexander

“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies were officially…

— Michelle Alexander

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning…

— Sidney Blumenthal

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures…

— Michelle Alexander

Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act…

— Stacey Abrams

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious…

— Patrisse Cullors

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less…

— Michelle Alexander

Voter suppression takes different forms.

— Stacey Abrams

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

— Rand Paul