Which of the following statements best explains white southerners' motivation for working to disenfranchise african americans voters? (a) few emancipated slaves had received sufficient education to be informed citizens. (b) they wanted to increase the influence of the republican party in the reconstruction-era south. (c) african americans began migrating out of the south in large numbers after the civil war. (d) the majority or near-majority of the population of most southern states was african american.

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south

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