The Mississippi Plan of 1874-1875 was developed by white Southern Democrats as part of the white insurgency during the Reconstruction Era in the Southern United States. It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and voter suppression against African American citizens and white Republican supporters. Democrats sought to regain political control of the state legislature and governor's office 'peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.' [1] Their justifications were articulated on a basis of
discontent with governor Adelbert Ames' Republican administration, including spurious charges of corruption and high taxes. [2] However, the violence that followed was centred on the desire to return white supremacy to the state. [3] The success of the campaign led to similar plans being adopted by white Democrats in South Carolina and other majority-black states across the South.
To end election violence and ensure that freedmen were excluded from politics, the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a new constitution in 1890, which effectively disenfranchised and disarmed most blacks by erecting barriers to voter registration and firearms ownership.[4][5][6] Disenfranchisement was enforced through terrorist violence and fraud, and most black people stopped trying to register or vote. They did not regain the power to vote until the late 1960s when the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to authorize federal oversight of state practices and protect citizens' right to vote.
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^ Harris, Day of the Carpetbagger, ch. 18.
^ Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.
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^Loewen, James W. (July 19, 2015). "What Does Rockville, Maryland's Confederate Monument Tell Us About the Civil War? About the Nadir? About the Present?". History News Network. Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
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