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[[File:Democratic voter suppression.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Democratic party voter suppression, 1963.]]
[[File:Democratic voter suppression.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Democratic party voter suppression, 1963.]]
The [[Democratic party]] exercised '''voter suppression''' in of the [[African American]] vote in [[the South]] for the first 100 years after the [[Republican]]-controlled [[Congress]] and states passed the [[15th Amendment]]. In 1964, a near unanimous vote of Republicans, coupled with a [[bi-partisan]] [[coalition]] of some [[Democrat]]s, passed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] allowing for [[federal]] intervention end [[Jim Crow]] laws in Blue States.
The [[Democratic party]] exercised '''voter suppression''' in of the [[African American]] vote in [[the South]] for the first 100 years after the [[Republican]]-controlled [[Congress]] and states passed the [[15th Amendment]]. In 1964, a near unanimous vote of Republicans, coupled with a [[bi-partisan]] [[coalition]] of some [[Democrat]]s, passed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] allowing for [[federal]] intervention end [[Jim Crow]] laws in Blue States.
Voter suppression occured through [[discriminatory]] practices at polling stations and often through intimidation and violence by the [[terrorist]] wing of the Democrat party - the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
Voter suppression occured through [[discriminatory]] practices at polling stations and often through intimidation and violence by the [[terrorist]] wing of the Democrat party - the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
===Civil rights era===
===Civil rights era===
[[File:Partycivilrights.jpeg|right|300px|thumb]]
The [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]] required state parties to develop written rules and post uniform statewide notification of the date, time, and location of precinct caucus meetings or party primary elections. There was a common practice in some Southern states such as Mississippi were all-white local party bosses held meetings in obscure locations so that Black majorities in a county or district were unaware of the time and place of party elections. Although many provisions the commission brought about were undone in the early 1980s by Walter Mondale and Ted Kennedy, several provisions have remained. Prior to McGovern-Fraser, several states had no written guidelines governing party conventions, caucuses, and the delegate selection process at each level, and were based mostly on local tradition, which often meant cronyism, discrimination, voter suppression and the boss's rule. The system had been used effectively by Democrats in their voter suppression of Blacks for over 100 years.
The [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]] required state parties to develop written rules and post uniform statewide notification of the date, time, and location of precinct caucus meetings or party primary elections. There was a common practice in some Southern states such as Mississippi were all-white local party bosses held meetings in obscure locations so that Black majorities in a county or district were unaware of the time and place of party elections. Although many provisions the commission brought about were undone in the early 1980s by Walter Mondale and Ted Kennedy, several provisions have remained. Prior to McGovern-Fraser, several states had no written guidelines governing party conventions, caucuses, and the delegate selection process at each level, and were based mostly on local tradition, which often meant cronyism, discrimination, voter suppression and the boss's rule. The system had been used effectively by Democrats in their voter suppression of Blacks for over 100 years.