[[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.]]
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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 handful of [[Democrat]]s, passed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] allowing for [[federal]] intervention end [[Jim Crow]] laws in Blue States.
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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 Republican caucus, coupled with a handful of [[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]].