Racial Violence and Disenfranchisement
Violence was used against African Americans to keep them from voting and using the rights they had as citizens of the United States. Lynchings were one of the ways that others used to keep African Americans from voting. A group of people called the Ku Klux Klan went through out the South terrorizing African Americans that tried to vote or use any of the rights they gained in the 14th amendment to the Constitution. The group burned African-American churches, abducted African-Americans and several other cruel things.