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QuizMultiple Choice

Civil Rights at the Turn of the Century

Question 7 • 1300W.1Y_African Amer Hist Web Recovery* – S2460280

Which statement best summarizes the experience of African American voters in the South?

Answer
A
African Americans had no voting rights from the end of the Civil War until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
B
African American men lost the voting rights they had in Reconstruction but regained them from the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
C
Southern states tried to eliminate the voting rights of African American men, but they found ways to vote anyway.
D
African American voters elected politicians who then repealed the laws that had restricted their voting rights.
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