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How did the Supreme Court play a role in undermining the newly gained rights of African Americans in the Reconstruction era?

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They did this by ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases that the 14th amendment only protected rights from the federal government. This led to the states being able to undermined legal and civil right of African American citizens.