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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era deals with the efforts made by a number of Southern states in the United States to prevent its black citizens from registering to vote despite the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War. Considerable violence and fraud accompanied elections after the Democrats regained power, as they worked to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office. In the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (long called a race riot by whites), white Democrats conducted a coup d'etat of city government, the only one in United States history; they overturned a duly elected biracial government and then widely attacked the black community, destroying lives and property. Finally, Democrats achieved disfranchisement by law: from 1890 to 1910, Southern states passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments and laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult, achieving the desired result of disfranchising most black voters, as well as many poor white ones. The Republican Party was nearly destroyed in the region. Southern Democrats had established a one-party system based on white supremacy. As Congressional apportionment was based on the total population, the Southern white Democrats, the Southern Bloc, came to have outsize power in Congress for decades. "Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reduces congressional representation for states that deny suffrage on racial grounds," but it was not enforced.In 1912 Woodrow Wilson gained an Electoral College bonus as a result of black disfranchisement, and won that and the 1916 presidential elections. He changed race relations, authorizing racial segregation throughout the federal government and establishing hiring discrimination. The results of disfranchisement also had additional far-reaching effects in Congress, where the Democratic South gained "about 25 extra seats in Congress for each decade between 1903 and 1953." Also, the end of a two-party system in the South meant that Southerners were disproportionately represented in seniority, controlling chairmanships of important committees and leadership of the national Democrats. During the Great Depression, numerous national social programs were passed without representation from African Americans, leading to gaps in coverage of the programs.. }

• Disfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_Era abstract "Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era deals with the efforts made by a number of Southern states in the United States to prevent its black citizens from registering to vote despite the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War. Considerable violence and fraud accompanied elections after the Democrats regained power, as they worked to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office. In the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (long called a race riot by whites), white Democrats conducted a coup d'etat of city government, the only one in United States history; they overturned a duly elected biracial government and then widely attacked the black community, destroying lives and property. Finally, Democrats achieved disfranchisement by law: from 1890 to 1910, Southern states passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments and laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult, achieving the desired result of disfranchising most black voters, as well as many poor white ones. The Republican Party was nearly destroyed in the region. Southern Democrats had established a one-party system based on white supremacy. As Congressional apportionment was based on the total population, the Southern white Democrats, the Southern Bloc, came to have outsize power in Congress for decades. "Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reduces congressional representation for states that deny suffrage on racial grounds," but it was not enforced.In 1912 Woodrow Wilson gained an Electoral College bonus as a result of black disfranchisement, and won that and the 1916 presidential elections. He changed race relations, authorizing racial segregation throughout the federal government and establishing hiring discrimination. The results of disfranchisement also had additional far-reaching effects in Congress, where the Democratic South gained "about 25 extra seats in Congress for each decade between 1903 and 1953." Also, the end of a two-party system in the South meant that Southerners were disproportionately represented in seniority, controlling chairmanships of important committees and leadership of the national Democrats. During the Great Depression, numerous national social programs were passed without representation from African Americans, leading to gaps in coverage of the programs.".