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Which statement best summarizes the experience of African American voters in the South?
African Americans had no voting rights from the end of the Civil War until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
African Americans lost the voting rights they had in Reconstruction but regained them from the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Southern states tried to eliminate African American voting rights, but African Americans found ways to vote anyway.
African American voters elected politicians who then repealed the laws that restricted African American voting.

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B

Explanation:

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S.

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The statement that best summarizes the experience of the former slaves in the South, is that African Americans lost the voting rights after Reconstruction but regained it after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

What was the situation of 'Black Suffrage' in the Southern States of America?

  • After the four-year long Civil War, and the victory of the Union, several changes were made with regard to the rights of the African American citizens.
  • After the end of the war in 1865, it was in 1870, that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution ensured the right to vote for the Black citizens as well.
  • But most states in the South found loopholes to ensure the restriction of the Black citizens' right to vote.
  • It was only in 1965, that the Voting Rights Act was passed, which ensured the protection of the suffrage rights without discrimination based on color.

From the above, it is clear that Option B is the correct answer.

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