Moore had been the lone representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Florida, crisscrossing the state to get equal wages for black teachers and the right to vote for blacks, who were denied that right in Florida and the rest of the South.

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The constitution is as clear about the right to vote thanks to the equal protection clause as it is murky on the right to abortion.

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" The court said, "Having granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over another.

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