Ten Southern states implemented literacy tests and poll taxes to disenfranchise black citizens. These were done effectively through the passage of the Black Codes.
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They made African Americans pass a literacy test..
There are loopholes in everything.
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Ten Southern states implemented literacy tests and poll taxes to disenfranchise black citizens. These were done effectively through the passage of the Black Codes.
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A literacy test has never been illegal in and of itself. Requiring voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote was declared unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because all citizens have the right to vote, regardless of their level of literacy. But the main point was that southern states used these laws as a method to prevent black voters from participating.
These measures were passed by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans and other minority groups from voting. They imposed barriers such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to prevent them from exercising their right to vote.
they passed the poll tax, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to prevent African Americans from voting. Also, the white southerners formed clans like the KKK to prevent blacks from voting.
Poll taxes and literacy tests
To discurage african Americans from voting
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Some southern states also passed laws that required literacy tests in order to vote. Since former slaves were not given proper educations before the Civil War and many of them were unable to read, this law was another attempt to prevent African Americans from voting. The literacy tests and poll taxes were often used together.