On February 8, 1894, the U.S. Congress repealed the Enforcement Act of 1871, a key piece of Reconstruction-era legislation that had protected African American voting rights. Its repeal made it easier for states, particularly in the South, to impose discriminatory laws that disenfranchised Black voters and ushered in the era of Jim Crow.
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