Describe the methods used to disfranchise African-American voters in the early 1900's.?

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Eugene Cross

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13 November, 13:04

Describe the methods used to disfranchise African-American voters in the early 1900's.?

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Raquel Downs · Answer 1

Literacy tests, along with poll taxes and extra-legal intimidation were used to deny suffrage to African-Americans in a number of southern states, while allowing many illiterate whites to vote. This was accomplished by making the test inordinately difficult and allowing test-givers to choose who had to take the test and who did not. Most African-Americans in the south were effectively disenfranchised from the 1890s until the 1960s.

Joyce Warner · Answer 2

Literacy tests, along with poll taxes and extra-legal intimidation were used to deny suffrage to African-Americans in a number of southern states, while allowing many illiterate whites to vote. This was accomplished by making the test inordinately difficult and allowing test-givers to choose who had to take the test and who did not. Most African-Americans in the south were effectively disenfranchised from the 1890s until the 1960s.