the republicans
Longstanding patterns of violence and threats against African Americans
Southern states implemented literacy tests as a means to disenfranchise African American voters after the Civil War. These tests often included confusing questions and required a level of reading and comprehension that many African Americans were systematically denied access to due to educational inequalities. Additionally, white voters were often exempted from these tests through loopholes like grandfather clauses, further entrenching racial discrimination in the electoral process. This combination of discriminatory practices effectively suppressed African American participation in elections for decades.
maybe because African Americans wouldn't vote?
African American voters began to lose their rights
To keep African Americans from voting, some Southern states implemented poll taxes, which required individuals to pay a fee in order to cast a ballot. This financial barrier disproportionately affected African Americans and poor white voters, effectively disenfranchising them. Poll taxes were part of a broader system of Jim Crow laws designed to maintain racial segregation and suppress black political power in the South.
They made African Americans pass a literacy test..
African Americans were asked harder questions than white voters
There were too few African American Voters to allow them to become a Political force.
Longstanding patterns of violence and threats against African Americans
Nothing. They didn't let them vote.
In the 2012 election, Mitt Romney dominated among certain demographic groups: white males, older voters, and southern voters. Barack Obama dominated among other demographic groups: single women, ethnic minorities (Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans), and college students.
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Southern states implemented literacy tests as a means to disenfranchise African American voters after the Civil War. These tests often included confusing questions and required a level of reading and comprehension that many African Americans were systematically denied access to due to educational inequalities. Additionally, white voters were often exempted from these tests through loopholes like grandfather clauses, further entrenching racial discrimination in the electoral process. This combination of discriminatory practices effectively suppressed African American participation in elections for decades.
Poll taxes and literacy tests
maybe because African Americans wouldn't vote?
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