African Americans And Racial Discrimination

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African Americans were limited from 1865 to 1900. Africans were socially limited. There was an organized group terrorizing African Americans. They were called the Ku Klux Klan; they used terror to restore white supremacy to the south. The Ku Klux Klan burned schools and homes of blacks and sympathetic white citizens, they also lynched. Southern schools segregated white and African American students; the white students had new textbooks while the African Americans had the torn, out of date books.

African Americans were limited in different ways, not only socially but also politically. Southern states passed laws increased racial discrimination. They used poll taxes and literacy test to keep black voters away from ballot boxes. Some states

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