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Insure that African Americans could freely exercise their rights as citizens
Insure that African Americans could freely exercise their rights as citizens
African-Americans are first-class citizens just like anyone else who was either born in the United States or who are naturalized citizens.
Of course. African Americans are born in the US, so they are automatically citizens. To get more technical, if an African came to America and became naturalized, s/he'd be a US citizen.
All African Americans became citizens as a result of the 14th Amendment.
The requirement that was necessary for African Americans to become citizens undr the fourtheenth amendment was that they had to be born in the U.S.
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Store owners would refuse to give African Americans extra time to pay for goods, employers wouldn't hire them, and secret societies used violence to deny their rights.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution stated that everyone born in the United States, including African Americans, were American citizens. It was ratified in 1868.
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14th Amendment and the 15th amendment.