Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - Urbanisation

The video discusses the political landscape for African-Americans post-Civil War, highlighting Hiram Revels' election as the first African-American U.S. Senator. It covers the subsequent disenfranchisement through poll taxes and literacy tests, the enforcement of Jim Crow laws, and the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which legalized segregation for decades.

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