Identify the Different Laws and Rules Used to Disenfranchise African

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Essay

Identify the different laws and rules used to disenfranchise African Americans in the South at the end of Reconstruction. How did southern states justify these forms of discrimination despite the protections guaranteed African Americans in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?

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