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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by TheAwesomeHwyh (talk) 16:44, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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Black suffrage in the United States

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1876 cartoon illustrating opposition to African Americans suffrage
1876 cartoon illustrating opposition to African Americans suffrage
  • ... that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction era laws enabled black suffrage, but in practice, African Americans still faced obstacles to voting? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)Swinney, Everette (1962). "Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment, 1870–1877". Journal of Southern History. 28#2 (2): 202–218. doi:10.2307/2205188. JSTOR 2205188.

Created by Evrik (talk), with help from User:Tdslk Self-nominated at 07:27, 7 June 2020 (UTC).

  • Looks good content-wise. Stylistically, please fix:
  • Careless mistakes in copyediting (spacing, misplaced punctuation) throughout the article. Please give it a good reread.
  • Grammatical mistakes in the lead; the second and third sentences are run-on sentences.
  • Unusual capitalization of "free Negroes".
  • "Case" in "Dred Scott case" should not be italicized.
  • Use a consistent capitalization scheme for "white" and "black" throughout the article. They are more commonly found in lowercase. Likewise, hyphenation for "African-American" should be consistent for a single part of speech. Generally we use a hyphen in the adjective form but not the noun form.
  • "Declaration" should not be capitalized.
  • Link grandfather clause, the reader cannot be assumed to know what it means.
  • Putting "See: Category:United States electoral redistricting case law" in the middle of a paragraph is not MoS-compliant.
In terms of the hook, "favored" seems weird to me. I would use "enabled", "facilitated", or "legalized" instead, depending on the connotation you desire. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:34, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
  • I made all the changes you suggested, and have listed this at WP:GOCE in hopes they'll help further. --evrik (talk) 05:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
  • I just noticed something: Nothing in this hook implies that it is about American history. It may be obvious from context for an American, but not necessarily to an international audience. To clarify the context, you can change "Civil War" to "American Civil War" and/or "blacks" to "African Americans" (and link it please). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:14, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
  • I made the change. I will ping you after GOCE looks at it. --evrik (talk) 05:22, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: The problems above have been fixed. The flow is a bit choppy (too many simple sentences), but this is not GA/FA. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 14:41, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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