History Extra for August 26, 2024
After the Fifteenth Amendment recognized in 1870 that keeping Black men from the polls on the grounds of race was unconstitutional, white southern Democrats switched their opposition to Black voting from race to class. They claimed that Black voters were socialists or communists. They explained that Black voters would elect lawmakers who would support n…
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