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* Disfranchisement.
When white Democrats regained power, they passed laws that made voter registration more inaccessible to blacks.
Black voters were forced off the voting rolls.
The number of African American voters dropped dramatically, and they no longer were able to elect representatives.
From 1890 to 1908, Southern states of the former Confederacy created constitutions with provisions that disfranchised tens of thousands of African Americans.
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