African american leaders at the local level: answer- write new state constitutions

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African American leaders at the local level helped write new state constitutions.

During Reconstruction, following the Civil War and after the army completed the registration of new voters, delegates to constitutional conventions were elected and commanded to meet in order to write new State Constitutions. A fourth of those delegates were African Americans leaders.

- "schenck v. united states, case in which the u.s. supreme court ruled on march 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the u.s. constitution's first amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.” "

- speech aimed to potentially create danger could be banned.

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