What methods of agency did rural Southern African Americans exert to counter forces blocking their ability to mobilize politically?

The prompt is: How did African American political mobilization change during Radical Reconstruction in the rural South? What methods of agency did rural Southern African Americans exert to counter forces blocking their ability to mobilize politically?

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Hahns: A Nation Under our Feet

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