The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Page: 8
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who sought promotions; thus, from 1880 on, Negroes relin-
quished political power in order to earn a living.
The white South devised yet other means of thwarting
the development of Negro suffrage. They resorted to gang-
sterism, led by the Ku Klux Klan, a secret organization
dedicated to preserving white supremacy in the South. Their
purpose was to overthrow the constituted authority and bring
back the antebellum South; their method was terror and vio-
lence; the legacy was the blight and the scars which remain
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on the South even today. The Klan went a long way towards
restoring white supremacy and prolonging black oppression in
the post-War South. Their tactics ranged from intimidation
to torture and murder. The bizarre night rides, with the
Klan members clad in sheets and mounted on horseback, sore-
ly frightened many Negroes. Even more impressive, however,
were the Klan*s economic sanctions: with their influence,
they could make certain that no goods or services would be
available to "uppity niggers" or "nigger-loving" whites.
Supplementing the Klan was the organization of the Conser-
vative or "white man's" party, chiefly composed of ex-Con-
federates and other white supremacists whose ends were the
same as those of the Klan, but who preferred less violent,
1:LMoon, 0£ cit., p. 70.
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David M. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism (Garden Citv.
New York, 1965), p. 11.
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Smith, Dale Cheryl. The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thesis, May 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131520/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .