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What is a grandfather clause and What is its purpose in literacy tests?
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What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
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What is a grandfather clause and what was it purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
Notorious clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literacy tests?
Grandfather Clause
What affected voter turnout among African American citizens in 1960s?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
What is a grandfather clause and what was is purpose with respect to literacy tests?
A grandfather clause was added to the Louisiana constitution in 1895; Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia soon added them as well. These clauses stated that any man, or his male descendants, who had voted in the State before the adoption of the 15th Amendment (1870) could become a legal voter without regard to any literacy or taxpaying qualifications.
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
How did southerners keep former slaves from voting?
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
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.
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 efforts were made to protect black rights during reconstruction?
the grandfather clauses and literacy tests and poll taxes.
How did White primary operate to disenfranchise black voters?
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
How did the white primary operate to disenfranchise black voters?
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
Five instruments used to keep racial minorities from voting?
Grandfather clauses white primaries literacy tests gerrymandering
