Describe the Statutory Techniques Used in the South to Render

question 51

Essay

Describe the statutory techniques used in the South to render the Fifteenth Amendment's voting guarantees ineffectual for African Americans. When statutory techniques did not work, whites resorted to terror. What forms did intimidation through terror take? How long did preventing voting through terror last?

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