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title: "How did Southern states continue to disenfranchise African American voters in spite of the Fifteenth Amendment?"  
description: "How did Southern states continue to disenfranchise African American voters in spite of the Fifteenth Amendment?"  
author: "Torres mary"  
published: 2018-05-16  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42468/how-did-southern-states-continue-to-disenfranchise-african-american-voters-in-spite-of-the-fifteenth-amendment  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did Southern states continue to disenfranchise African American voters in spite of the Fifteenth Amendment?

How did [Southern states](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51335/why-did-southern-states-progress-more-slowly-than-northern-states) continue to [disenfranchise African](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43149/by-the-end-of-reconstruction-what-means-were-used-to-disenfranchise-african-americans) American voters in spite of the [Fifteenth Amendment](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51191/what-effect-did-the-fifteenth-amendment-have-on-the-women-s-rights-movement)?


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