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ACE Example Assertion: An Arguable Claim About The Past

White Southerners crafted laws to reverse the rising political power of African Americans. A South Carolina senator detailed how legislators deliberately developed an educational requirement for voting to disenfranchise African American voters. The senator suggested that African Americans faced violence for participating in politics and were worse off when they did so, showing that whites saw them as not belonging in politics and justifying discriminatory strategies.

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ACE Example Assertion: An Arguable Claim About The Past

White Southerners crafted laws to reverse the rising political power of African Americans. A South Carolina senator detailed how legislators deliberately developed an educational requirement for voting to disenfranchise African American voters. The senator suggested that African Americans faced violence for participating in politics and were worse off when they did so, showing that whites saw them as not belonging in politics and justifying discriminatory strategies.

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ACE Example

Assertion: An arguable claim about the past

White Southerners crafted laws to reverse the rising political power of African Americans.

Citation: Quoted and paraphrased text to support the assertion

In a speech to other legislators, South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman detailed this process. He

explained that legislators “calmly, deliberately, and avowedly” developed an educational

requirement for voting. Referring to the African American voter, Tillman said, “he is not

meddling with politics, for he found that the more he meddled with them the worse off he got.”

Explanation: Analyze how the words prove the assertion

While other writers more explicitly refer to the violence that African Americans experienced for

expressing their political voices, Tillman suggests a relationship between that violence and the

new laws in the South. His remark that African Americans were “worse off” as they “meddled”

with politics shows that he thought they did not belong in politics and that they suffered because

of their participation. Tillman’s openness about disenfranchisement also reflects the idea that

whites felt no need to hide their racist strategies. Instead, they publicly announced their role in

prolonging discrimination. This attitude appeared in the literature of pro-lynching advocates,

who treated violence as a spectacle.


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