re: TIL all white men got to vote just 14 years before black men

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After federal troops pulled out of the south, Southern whites used intimidation and violence to deter many blacks from voting . This included lynching , castrations and other vile acts. It was this way that whites where able to regain much of the political power that had been stripped after loosing the civil war. without federal troops to enforce free and fair elections , whites were able to keep blacks marginalized for many decades after reconstruction. Reconstruction turned out be a huge failure for blacks. also whites forced blacks to pass ridiculously difficult “literacy tests” that most whites could not even pass. These tests can be found online. so yes , under federal law blacks were granted the right to vote but southern whites pulled out all the stops to fix elections in their favor. When the confederates got back political power positions like Sheriff and Judge, in small towns there was not really anyone to file greivence with. Many blacks had to return to their former lives of indentured servitude as sharecroppers.

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loosing

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