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African American and White Voter Registration in Louisiana (1878 -2010)
This graph shows the strategies that white Southern legislators used to disenfranchise African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
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English — USSubject
- History
- Social Studies
- Democracy & Civic Engagement
- Human & Civil Rights
- Racism
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