Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era
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Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era in the United States of America, especially in Southern states, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting. These measures were enacted by the former Confederate states at the turn of the 20th century, and by Oklahoma when it gained statehood in 1907, although not by the former border slave states. Their actions were designed to thwart the objective of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which sought to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War.
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- African-American history
- Civil rights movement (1865–1896)
- Civil rights movement (1896–1954)
- List of 19th-century African-American civil rights activists
- Timeline of the civil rights movement
- Felony disenfranchisement
- Jim Crow laws
- Nadir of American race relations
- Judicial aspects of race in the United States
- Voting rights in the United States
- White backlash#United States
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