Mississippi Jim Crow Law 2025. Civil rights groups are urging a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling that found mississippi's lifetime felon disenfranchisement law, which ranks among the harshest in the nation,. Over the past 30 years, approximately 55,000 mississippians have lost their rights to vote due to felony disenfranchisement.

“section 241 is a jim crow law which mississippi specifically designed to disenfranchise black people. Civil war, white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the black vote.