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2024-06-14 12:19:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 51E4865F47C10DB119417DC1E89442AFDB6F527276858E15BF3568A4FCAD4B9D
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Despite laws on the books and a brief time of Black men voting & being elected to office during the Reconstruction era, the Jim Crow eras laws and local practices made it impossible for Blacks to vote. Poll taxes and violence were used to intimidate and deter. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
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