After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Voting rights for freed Black people proved a big problem. Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states, but many felt the approach unfair. The Acts ...

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...