Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era

Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting. These measures were enacted by former Confederate states at the turn of the 20th century in the United States. Their actions defied the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War.

Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era

Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting. These measures were enacted by former Confederate states at the turn of the 20th century in the United States. Their actions defied the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War.