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important. nearly 160 years ago, as the civil war ended in 1865, congress began formulating what would become the reconstruction acts. the first construction act established rules for many of the rebel formerly confederate states to rejoin the union. it established new constitutions for those states, and the black men still did not have the vote federally in the united states, these new constitutions mandated and franchise meant for black men in nearly a dozen southern states right after the civil war. and so, in 1867, black men only began to vote in the south, they ran for office. here is the cover of harper's weekly from 1867 with an illustration titled, the first vote. these are black men voting, within the year, black men began winning local elections in 1968 it black republican named oscar dunn ran for lieutenant governor in louisiana and one. at the same time, anti black sentiment was growing,