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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.
==See also==
*[[Civil Rights movement]]
[[Category:United States History]]
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.
==See also==
*[[Civil Rights movement]]
[[Category:United States History]]