Known as Snick, the organization sent hundreds of Northern whites and blacks to do the dangerous and difficult work of registering disenfranchised blacks in the South.
Founded in the early 1920's, Runyon Heights began as one of the few communities in Westchester County where largely disenfranchised blacks could buy property.
A poll tax enacted in 1902 effectively disenfranchised blacks and poor whites.
Before 1963, he evinced little concern for disenfranchised blacks.
Born roughly 100 years ago, it is the product of disenfranchised blacks.
She wrote that the women-centered sphere of candomblé was a source of power for certain disenfranchised blacks and a creative outlet for what she called "passive homosexuals".
It was a time when rebellious young whites and disenfranchised blacks took to the streets in sometimes violent protests.
As a political leader, he has built an electoral base that draws from two diverse constituencies: middle-class environmentalists and disenfranchised blacks.
Almost all of it went for schools for the country's disenfranchised blacks and Indians and for her order.
Especially for young disenfranchised blacks, the movie suggests, catching the slam spirit can be as life-transforming as success on the basketball court or in the recording studio.