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« Reply #75 on: 16:31:07, 06-11-2008 »
Various laws that made it very difficult to exercise that right, such as literacy requirements which were dramatically higher for blacks than for whites, or from which whites were exempted by grandfather clauses and which were struck down in the civil rights era.  See Wikipedia's Jim Crow laws[/article].
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« Reply #76 on: 11:05:43, 07-11-2008 »
He's not the Messiah ...

http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/All-things-are-possible-Barack.4666005.jp

"In front of me, a 60-year-old man fell to his knees, weeping. Alongside, an African-American mother and her teenage daughter hugged and cried on one another's shoulders.

Nearby, a woman in a wheelchair flung her arms in the air and looked into the clear night sky, shouting 'thank God, thank God' over and over again."
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