The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow era ...

The court, in 2023, had also rejected a different challenge to the state’s voting restriction that was based on the fact it was drafted in 1890 as part of a racist effort to disenfranchise Black ...

Interestingly, Black Hawk does not mention in his autobiography that he used a boulder as a rostrum in the council area as stated in local lore.

On January 27 the US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Mississippi lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain felonies ...

"Mississippi stands as an outlier among its ... from the provision's "pernicious origin still work the very harm the 1890 convention intended - denying Black Mississippians the vote." ...