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Notorious clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literacy test and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in1860 thereby excluding blacks?
the grandfather clause
Laws that exempted men from voting restrictions?
grandfather clause
What is a grandfather clause and What is its purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
What is a grandfather clause and what was it purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
What allowed people to vote even if they could not pass the literacy test if their grandfathers or fathers had voted?
The practice that allowed individuals to vote despite failing literacy tests was known as the "grandfather clause." This clause permitted those whose grandfathers or fathers had been eligible to vote before a certain date to bypass literacy tests and other voting requirements. It effectively exempted many white voters from these tests while disenfranchising Black voters and others, thereby upholding systemic racism in the electoral process. Grandfather clauses were implemented in several Southern states as part of broader Jim Crow laws to maintain white supremacy in voting.
Poll taxes grandfather clause's and literacy tests were attempts by Southern white legislators to?
deprive African Americans of their legal right basically a hidden form of slavery
Why did some southern states sometimes use a grandfather clause?
The point of using a grandfather clause was to allow literacy tests to be conducted for voting but not to deny the right to vote for those who's ancestors had the right to vote before the literacy tests were created.
What were the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause?
To limit voting by African Americans
What were southern states attempting to do by passing the grandfather clause?
Disfranchise it
What region or regions did the grandfather clause exist?
In southern states
Who woufirst person in the family line who could vote under the grandfather clause( the mans son or grandson)?
I think you misunderstand the term "grandfather clause ". It was a statute enacted by the southern states in reconstruction that allowed potential white voters to bypass literacy tests, poll taxes, and other things to stop African Americans from voting. It had nothing to do with family lines.
What affected voter turnout among African American citizens in 1960s?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
