... party dominated their platform; leaving the blacks to face the wrath of the Southerners. A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. In this bill, the Senate objected to the idea of Congress protecting African- American voters in the South through federal supervision of state elections. (McDuffie, 117) It was sign that Congress, and its ... should be Jim Crow waiting saloons at all stations, and Jim Crow eating houses," (Woodward, 67), the divided South soon became a reality. The Supreme Court had permitted th...

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