Segregation and Jim Crow
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Segregation and Jim Crow Reconstruction briefly opened political participation and public office to Black citizens, but those gains met organized resistance. As sustained federal intervention receded, southern states and local governments built Jim Crow: a system of racial control enforced through law, administration, violence, and economic power. Segregation rules reached […]
Fifteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Fifteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment says that the United States and the states may not deny or abridge the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Ratified in 1870, it gave Congress enforcement power and created a constitutional rule that applied to every level of […]
