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Newly-elected Black leaders participate in constitutional conventions.

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More than 600 African-Americans are elected to state legislatures during Reconstruction. Black and white lawmakers share contested leadership as states establish new laws and governments at constitutional conventions across the South. White backlash immediately follows.