Black suffrage in the United States
Legal right of African Americans to vote in elections / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Further information: Civil rights movement (1865–1896), Civil rights movement (1896–1954), and Civil Rights Movement
African Americans were fully enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, some Black people in the United States had the right to vote, but this right was often abridged or taken away. After 1870, Black people were theoretically equal before the law, but in the period between the end of Reconstruction era and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this was frequently infringed in practice.