enfranchise

It took the 15th Amendment, ratified more than 1½ years later, to enfranchise black Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

If voters pass the measure, it goes back to the council to decide when — if ever — to enfranchise the immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Pressure began building to enfranchise women voters in the early 20th century, notably in the southeastern state of Yucatan, said Lorenzo Meyer, a historian at the Colegio de Mexico.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023

For one, advocates would do well to resist a narrow understanding of list maintenance as disenfranchising—captured by the term “voter purging”—and consider how list maintenance could enfranchise mobile voters.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2023

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“What I don’t want to see is a system that enfranchises some people and not others and we need the research to really tell what happened here,” Mr. de Blasio said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

Pass another voting rights act that enfranchises as many Americans as possible.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

“A historical atlas enfranchises the whole nation,” he said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2013

The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Douglass may not have held a role as a judge, legislator, or even enfranchised citizen, yet he nonetheless played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s understanding of equal citizenship in the Civil War era.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2022

That act was a result of a prolonged, sometimes blundering effort by Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant to protect newly emancipated and enfranchised Black people in the brief post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021

Their efforts to provide Black people with greater legal rights earned them the support of African Americans in both the South, where they were newly enfranchised, and the Northeast.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"Those are two great examples of private sector firms enfranchising themselves in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

“To have the person who was always part of enfranchising the community be disenfranchised the way he was, was unconscionable,” Norton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

While neither group is affiliated with Abrams’ campaign, they are continuing voter registration and education initiatives predicated on her goal of enfranchising more minority communities.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022

Evidence from Scotland, where 16- and 17-year-olds voted in the 2014 independence referendum, suggests that simply enfranchising these younger teens will encourage them to vote.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2018

Our wish is that we may have a national constitutional amendment, enfranchising the women citizens and preventing the States from depriving them of representation in the Government.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper