States developed still other restrictions on black voting.
They crushed black voting and other freedoms through violence, terrorism and fraud.
The elections of 1876 were accompanied in many southern states with fraud and violence to suppress black voting.
The last restrictions on black voting were made illegal in 1965.
The state succeeded in reducing black voting to zero by 1908.
State legislators created other ways to suppress black voting, but from 1948 to 1952, it crept up to 5% of those eligible.
Tillman and other Democratic leaders intended to go beyond the statutes to eliminate black voting.
He had seen the rise in violence at the polls, which repressed black voting.
Each legal victory was followed by white legislature's renewed efforts to control black voting through different schemes.
Red Shirts prevented almost all black voting in two majority-black counties.