What happened to African American civil rights
after Reconstruction?
African Americans were prevented from
voting, and segregation laws were passed.
African Americans were forced to use legal
maneuvers to ensure their rights were
protected
Few African Americans faced discrimination
"Tilden and the Democratic Party accepted a
GOP [Republican] victory, while Hayes
pledged to withdraw federal troops from the
states of the former Confederacy, effectively
ending Reconstruction. With the departure of
the army. Republican governments in the
South fell as former slaves were prevented
from voting by legal
maneuvers, intimidation and terrorism. Loss
of the vote was quickly followed by
segregation laws and other discrimination
against blacks, and it would be eight decades
before the nation redressed the legacy of
1877."
Thomas H. Neale
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