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Following the announcement of black male suffrage, efforts were redoubled to prevent them from exercising this right of citizenship. The first way was focused intimidation most often by regular citizens blinded by racism and crazed motivation to keep white supremacy in place. Racist terrorist groups such as the KKK were formed, to offer blacks a choice of either not voting or suffering violence or death. Other methods were institutional such as a "Poll tax", an illegal charge levied by election boards and required to be "Eligible to vote". It should be noted, this affected poor white males as well as blacks. In addition, certain reading or citizenship tests to test eligibility to vote. Since prior to the end of the Civil War, it had been against the law to teach a slave to read, this eliminated most black males.

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