It is evident to me that the tactics being used by Republicans ie Florida Governor's purging of minority voters is the beginnning of the same tactis used by the South to destroy Reconstruction.
After the Civil War, the Congress had set up a system in the South to enfranchise the slaves. Of course, the slaves had no experience at governoring themselves and absolutely no financial basis at all. They were released into the nation with no way to help themselves and no national help at all. They had not the educational ability nor experience other than plantation life to help themselves.
Most of the help they did receive was through certain philanthropic whites and others who concerned themselves with education and welfare of exslaves There were some blacks ie Fredrich Douglas, Harriet Tubman and Booker T Washington who applied themselves to help their people all they could. The one thing they lacked was MONEY. In order to help great numbers of blacks they needed money and they didnt have it.