Mississippi voting rights advocates said their fight is not over, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies.

Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time ...

"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." ...

Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn ... The voting restrictions were included in the state’s constitution after an 1890 convention in which delegates eliminated the right to vote ...

Section 241 of Mississippi’s constitution is no exception. The provision, which permanently bars anyone convicted of a listed felony from voting, was amended in 1890 to remove crimes more often ...

“A citizen convicted in a Mississippi state court of a disenfranchising ... The practice was codified in the state’s 1890 constitution as part of early Jim Crow provisions attempting to ...

Mississippi is a state rich with history ... County is one of the state's most iconic historical landmarks. In 1890, the sprawling Windsor Plantation was marred by a fire, leaving only 29 large ...

About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under the state’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017. More than 29,000 of them have completed their ...