A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era Struggle for and suppression of African American Voting Rights in the United States.
Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional ame.
A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era Struggle for and suppression of African American Voting Rights in the United States