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Prior to the early 1800s wealthy African-American men in Pennsylvania could vote just as their rich European-American male counterparts could. However, voting rights were expanded to include poor European-American men ("universal manhood suffrage"), in a shift that began the move away from a society stratified by wealth, to one which was now also based on race; black wealthy men were now no ...
No white children were allowed to attend any graded common school for colored children and vice versa. 1918: Prisons This law allowed the segregation of races in all municipal, parish, and state prisons. 1921: Education This law called for separate public schools for the education of white and black children between the ages of six and eighteen.
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Protests over George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police were raging across the country last June when a... View Article The post Pennsylvania voters to decide racial equity ...
A majority-minority district is an electoral district, such as a United States congressional district, in which the majority of the constituents in the district are racial or ethnic minorities (as opposed to Non-Hispanic whites in the U.S.). Race is collected through the decennial United States census.
Drivers pulled over by state police in 2023 were at roughly comparable rates regardless of race or ethnicity, according to a department report. Report finds Pa. state police stops are conducted ...
In 1961 Congress of Racial Equality director James Farmer, other CORE members and some Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee members traveled as a mixed-race group, Freedom Riders, on Greyhound buses from Washington, D.C., headed toward New Orleans. In several states the travelers were subject to violence.
“The fact is, and I’ll say it now, you have to get ’em the hell out. You have to get ’em out. I’m sorry. But get ’em out. Can’t have it.