Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Mississippi Plan of 1875 was developed as part of the white insurgency during the Reconstruction era in the southern United States. It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote. Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office. Their success led to similar plans being adopted by white Democrats in South Carolina and other majority-black states.To end election violence and formalize the exclusion of freedmen from politics, the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a new constitution in 1890, which effectively disenfranchised and disarmed most blacks by erecting barriers to voter registration and firearms ownership. Disenfranchisement was enforced through terrorist violence and fraud and eventually, most black people stopped trying to register or vote. They did not regain the power to vote until the late 1960s after federal legislation was passed to prevent."@en }
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- Mississippi_Plan abstract "The Mississippi Plan of 1875 was developed as part of the white insurgency during the Reconstruction era in the southern United States. It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote. Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office. Their success led to similar plans being adopted by white Democrats in South Carolina and other majority-black states.To end election violence and formalize the exclusion of freedmen from politics, the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a new constitution in 1890, which effectively disenfranchised and disarmed most blacks by erecting barriers to voter registration and firearms ownership. Disenfranchisement was enforced through terrorist violence and fraud and eventually, most black people stopped trying to register or vote. They did not regain the power to vote until the late 1960s after federal legislation was passed to prevent.".