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Gerrymandering is when district lines were drawn or redrawn in order to limit the voting strength of a given group. This was a huge hurdle that many African American groups had to overcome. In order to limit the voting power of the African American groups, gerrymandering was done to make the area where the African Americans lived into one huge district while creating many smaller white districts to increase their power

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