The freed blacks of Alabama have participated…

The freed blacks of Alabama have participated in the constitutional conventions and in the state legislatures but their political power is not as strong as that of blacks in South Carolina, Mississippi, or Louisiana.

The white Democrats of Alabama, most of whom had been supporters of the Confederacy, regain control of the state political machinery in 1874. (This will render black Alabamans almost powerless until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.)