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Did proponents of Jim Crow laws ever defend them as non-racial 'election security/integrity' measures? Did the average white northern voter understand that they were designed explicitly to stop black people from voting, or did they think there were other reasons?

by /u/All_Tan_Everything in /r/AskHistorians

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