Southern constitutional disenfranchisement followed the retreat of federal racial-justice will

Evidence

The constitutions of the 1870s had removed any restraints on the right of “rebels” to vote. Later, when the North, the federal government, and the judiciary had lost any surviving taste for racial justice, the South proceeded to write white rule into their fundamental laws. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2062

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Southern backlash nullified Reconstruction amendments through law and terror — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 386; Federal withdrawal enabled violent white re-conquest of Southern governance. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1354; Disenfranchisement entrenched white Democratic supremacy in the South for nearly a century — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 83 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Federal withdrawal enabled violent white re-conquest of Southern governance. #corroborates (0.85) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1354
• White Southern backlash nullified Reconstruction amendments through law and terror #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 386
• Disenfranchisement entrenched white Democratic supremacy in the South for nearly a century #expands (0.75) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 83