Blacks Excluded from Politics
 

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Blacks Excluded from Politics
In 1890, a constitutional convention in Mississippi effectively excluded Blacks from voting. The convention adopted a series of requirements that included literacy, "understanding," and also excluding voters who had been convicted of all forms of crimes, minor or other.