Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181030:17:38:00
There was that brief period, and the violence that ensued that actually killed people. 100 black people were killed in co colfax, louisiana, trying to protect the black person they elected to office. >> slavery was so successful that there were lots and lots and lots of black people in the south when they got the right to vote. the folks who didn't want them winning elections had to come up with every creative way possible to say the constitution guarantees you a right to vote, we're going to find ways to not let you vote. that continues to this very election in seven days. >> right what we're...
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