enfranchisement

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“We still started a conversation about teen enfranchisement, and I think that’s really valuable regardless of outcome,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

But Francis also noted that the school system was “promoted by the governmental authorities at the time” as part of a policy of assimilation and enfranchisement, in which “local Catholic institutions had a part.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022

When you talk with people about full enfranchisement for Black Americans that conversation usually starts in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2022

But the amendment did represent the single largest act of enfranchisement in American history, and that fall, millions of American women cast their first ballots.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2020

There is no more commendable action in Mohammedan morals than to free slaves, and such enfranchisement is enjoined by the Prophet especially as an atonement for an undeserved blow or other injustice.

From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley