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Did defenders of Jim Crow legislation explicitly argue that its purpose was to stop blacks/poor whites from voting, or did they publicly use other justifications like dealing with 'election irregularities' and 'fraud'?

by /u/All_Tan_Everything in /r/AskHistorians

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