re: They just removed the Lee statue in Richmond VA...any of you care anymore?

As I mentioned before this started after the civil war. Black people at that time began to experience progress economically and in politics when running for office. Multiple things have transpired during that time that negatively affected black people. Here are a few examples that contributed to this broad movement.

Great Compromise of 1877 - federal troops were pulled from multiple southern states as part of the deal of Rutherford B. Hayes being president. This ultimately led to the beginning of the Jim Crow era.

Isaiah T. Montgomery and the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention - Isaiah T. Montgomery, who was the founder of the all black town of Mound Bayou MS participated in this constitutional convention and ultimately supported the version of the MS constitution at the time that ultimately disenfranchised black people from voting. When this constitution survived legal challenges in the Supreme Court, other states began to adopt similar measures.