enfranchise

Example Sentences

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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

Historically, the practice has been used to enfranchise voters who lack access to polls or drop boxes.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2022

Until Eric Foner’s masterwork “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877” appeared in 1988, many historians — and most Americans — saw the post-Civil War efforts to enfranchise and empower blacks as a failed experiment at best.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2020

“She helped enfranchise more than 50 percent of the population. That’s huge.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2018

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

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling