Political emancipation is a term used to describe various efforts to obtain political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchsed group, or more generally in discussion of such matters. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

The word "emancipation" was in common use in political affairs of 18th and 19th century political discourse, as in Catholic or Jewish emancipation movements (see the emancipation page for more examples), while female suffrage was a major goal of women's emancipation movements. Dates of Jewish emancipation. ... Look up emancipation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Women’s rights typically refers to human rights which are or have been granted to adult men but not to adult women in a particular society. ...

Among others, Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term human emancipation. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "qual status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other “private” characteristics of individual persons."^[1] Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ... On the Jewish Question (German: Zur Judenfrage) is an essay by Karl Marx written in autumn 1843 and first published in February 1844 in Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. ...

"Political emancipation" as a phrase is less common in modern useage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States the civil rights movement culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, can be seen as further realization of events such as the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery a century earlier. This article is becoming very long. ... The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed requiring would-be voters to take literacy tests and provided for federal registration of African American voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered. ... The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential order in 1863 that freed most (but not all) of the slaves in the United States. ...

References

1. ^ Notes on Political and Human Emancipation, Mark Rupert, Syracuse University.