![Eight scenes of African American men voting or attempting to vote in the South in the 1860s.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/12473v.jpg?itok=69Mtf7Iw)
Black Suffrage in the South
![A variation on an 'I voted' sticker.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/3003780700_25bd99969a_o.jpg?itok=hCzvQOWA)
Can’t Vote
![A 2016 map depicting the rates of African American felony disfranchisement.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Sentencing_Project_-_African-American_2016_disenfranchisement_rates.png?itok=fropsTPv)
African American Felony Disfranchisement
![Eastern State Penitentiary.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Eastern_State_Penitentiary_aerial_crop.jpg?itok=wARKA3vM)
Eastern State Penitentiary
![An 1867 cartoon depicting an enfranchised black man and a sulking Confederate.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Harper%27s_weekly_%281857%29_%2814596197720%29.jpg?itok=6ORe-LrB)
We Accept the Situation
![A Louisiana slave in 1863 with scars from numerous whippings.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/362px-Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg?itok=2eymsS92)
The Scars of Slavery
![A whipping post in a Baltimore City Jail used from 1865 to 1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/z8-1121-pp32.jpg?itok=guaOv60M)
Baltimore Whipping Post
![An 1876 cartoon depicting intimidation of an African American voter.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/harpers-weekly-of-course-he-wants-to_vote-p-848.jpg?itok=VIB5FOpm)
“Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket”
![An 1874 depiction of discrimination against would-be black voters by the 'White League.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/3c27754v.jpg?itok=WRk_YWvo)
Everything Points to a Democratic Victory
![A handbill urging the defeat of the segregation bill in St. Louis.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Balance%20of%20Political%20Power_0.jpg?itok=03vsuh8k)
Shall St. Louis be the Slave Master?
![Inmates at a Washington State prison growing sagebrush for the Bureau of Land Management in 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/21449932686_e606a4750d_z.jpg?itok=GORs-AoH)
Coyote Ridge Corrections Center
![A graph showing the increase in the U.S. prison population from 1920 to 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg_.png?itok=EgAXqD8q)
Incarcerated Americans
![Senator and future Vice President Joe Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Biden_Crime_Bill.jpg?itok=_8WYAE0b)
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act