Because belonging to the church (being a church official such as a priest or a bishop) esentially meant you were given education (not common or at all present in those times) and a good position with a pay. You also exerted a lot of power in your local or regional community as church officials were considered to have been influential figures in medieval ages.
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They created the Jim Crow Laws, which made African Americans unable to do certain things such as vote and hold office, and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) threatened African Americans in many ways, even going as far as to murder them.
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