After the Civil War, #Black people had begun gaining political power due to Reconstruction and amendments giving them the right to vote. They registered en masse and, in the 1874 election in Mississippi, swept Republicans into the governor’s office and the legislature. Southern Whites still plotted to keep Black people from registering and voting, however. […]

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