Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era<span> in the United States of America was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent </span>black<span> citizens from </span>registering to vote<span> and voting. These measures were enacted by former </span>Confederate<span> states at the turn of the 20th century, and by Oklahoma upon statehood</span><span> although </span>not<span> by the </span>border slave states<span>. Their actions defied the intent of the </span>Fifteenth Amendment<span> to the </span>United States Constitution<span>, </span>ratified<span> in 1870, which was intended to protect the </span>suffrage<span> of </span>freedmen<span> after the </span>American Civil War<span>.</span>
After years of Reconstruction and after a series of initiatives that were taken to protect the right to vote by African Americans, many Southern states started the process called “Disenfranchisement”. The Disenfranchisement process began with a decision by the US Supreme Court in the case US v. Reese and US v. Cruikshank, after those decisions it was decided that protecting voting rights was the responsibility of state government, not the Federal Government.
After that, many Southern States limited the voting rights of African Americans, the methods were using poll taxes, determining literacy tests, violence or even the refusal to count certain votes.
