The Codes also energized the drive for the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution, extending citizenship to all African Americans and suffrage to black males. These were an attempt to get around the law and reduce blacks to a condition as near to slavery as possible. The Codes severely limited the rights of blacks and segregated them from whites because whites felt blacks were inferior to them...
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S. Constitution, extending citizenship to all African Americans and suffrage to black males. These were an attempt to get around the law and reduce blacks to a condition as near to slavery as possible. The Codes severely limited the rights of blacks and segregated them from whites because whites felt blacks were inferior to them...
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