Darryl Pinckney Quotes


I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.


Citations

Pinckney, Darryl. Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy. New York Review Books, 2014.

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At the time less than 10% of the Southern Blacks were allowed to vote. The result was that Southern segregationists were elected to Congress even in a state like Mississippi which had a majority Black population, The Southern segregationist bloc was large enough that with a few very conservative Republicans, they formed a coalition could block any civil rights legislation including voting rights reform,


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Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.