Thursday, May 31, 2018
AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE RACISTS
All the Southern states (and Oklahoma) used devices to disenfranchise black voters during the Progressive Era.
Typically the progressive elements in those states pushed for disenfranchisement, often fighting against the conservatism of the Black Belt whites.
A major reason given was that whites routinely purchased black votes to control elections, and it was easier to disenfranchise blacks than to go after powerful white men.
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