the late 1800s to keep blacks from voting, "grandfather clauses" denied voter registration to people who were illiterate, who did not own property or could not pass a test on citizenship obligations, unless their grandfathers had served in the Confederate Army. Such laws are now unconstitutional...
Grandfathers of Punk Still Rule the Fun House; the Stooges POP Hammersmith Apollo
While young Africans are beginning to understand the hypocrisy and fallacy of religions used to bind and bond our grandfathers, many in the older generation, those in hardship, need or neglect are still stuck in the belief that there is democracy from a distant land that can liberate them from...
“All of them,” said Pachulia, “know that their grandfathers and great grandfathers came from Africa, but they have no concrete information concerning the part of the African continent they came from. “They only remember that their fathers and grandfathers had always been respected members ...
In the year 1832, the Vilnius University was closed. By the year 1865, printed Lithuanian language was banned. A policy of “Restoration of the Russian beginnings” was initiated as the Russian propaganda claimed that before Polonization the Lithuanian lands were, in fact, Russian. ...