How do you use the word disenfranchised in a sentence?

(To disenfranchise someone is to remove one's rights. more specifically the right to vote.)

As a result of racist laws, millions of African-Americans were disenfranchised in the American South before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Stockholders of the company claimed that they had been disenfranchised by the actions of the Board of Directors.