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title: "Why were whites in Mississippi afraid of African American voting rights?"  
description: "Why were whites in Mississippi afraid of African American voting rights?"  
author: "valentine d'suja"  
published: 2018-04-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40570/why-were-whites-in-mississippi-afraid-of-african-american-voting-rights  
category: "usa history"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why were whites in Mississippi afraid of African American voting rights?

Why were whites in Mississippi afraid of [African American](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51325/why-did-a-significatn-portion-of-the-african-american-populations-shift-as-a-result-of-world-war-2) [voting rights](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42550/how-did-voting-rights-expand-after-the-revolutionary-war)?\
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