Permanent Outsiders: Felon Disenfranchisement and The Breakdown of Black Politics

doi:10.4324/9781315131924-13

ABSTRACT

May the conscience of a great nation rise and rebuke all dishonesty and unrighteous oppression toward the American Negro, and grant him the right of franchise [and] security of person and property.”—W. E. B. DuBois (1903).