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Highest ever voting rate of eligible voters: 81.8%.

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At this point, only men are eligible to vote. Black men received the right to vote in 1870. Before Jim Crow solidifies across the South, many Black men vote, though widespread organizing against Black voting limits their numbers. Voting percentages will stay in the 70% range until white women's suffrage, and then decline.