voting
The literacy tests were designed to prevent voting by the majority of freed slaves and their descendants, in order to prevent them from influencing local elections where they represented a substantial number of the populace. These laws ultimately affected the succeeding generations and were eventually removed as unconstitutional.
The African Americans were kept from voting with poll taxes, which meant they had to pay to vote and literacy tests where if they failed them they couldn't vote, and since many at the time were illiterate and poor they couldn't vote. Also fear played a factor the Ku Klux Klan would threaten them to keep them away from the polls.
Even after the 15th Amendment white southerners mostly kept blacks away from the polls by intimidation. Also many clauses were added to keep blacks from voting such as the one that required them to be literate (the ability to read and write) to cast their ballot. There was also something a Poll Tax (a tax which was imposed on someone when they went to vote) which was only imposed upon the Africa Americans.
Collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests I believe so
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves
The literacy tests were designed to prevent voting by the majority of freed slaves and their descendants, in order to prevent them from influencing local elections where they represented a substantial number of the populace. These laws ultimately affected the succeeding generations and were eventually removed as unconstitutional.
The African Americans were kept from voting with poll taxes, which meant they had to pay to vote and literacy tests where if they failed them they couldn't vote, and since many at the time were illiterate and poor they couldn't vote. Also fear played a factor the Ku Klux Klan would threaten them to keep them away from the polls.
Even after the 15th Amendment white southerners mostly kept blacks away from the polls by intimidation. Also many clauses were added to keep blacks from voting such as the one that required them to be literate (the ability to read and write) to cast their ballot. There was also something a Poll Tax (a tax which was imposed on someone when they went to vote) which was only imposed upon the Africa Americans.
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
Collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests I believe so
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
Not court orders but Literacy Tests
The South resisted reconstruction by passing special laws, like the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws, in order to keep blacks down in a status practically the same as slavery. Blacks were supposedly free due to the 13th amendment, but they still had no rights, and were being forced to work under stiff work contracts. The Ku Klux Klan also emerged in the South specifically to keep blacks down and uphold white supremacy. Yet another thing that was done was that Southerners charged poll taxes, and had literacy tests as requirements to vote, knowing that most blacks at that time had neither the money to do so, or the ability to read.
Voting
The Black Codes and Jim Crow laws were established to further restrict the freedom of African Americans. The methods used to keep them from voting were literacy tests, pole taxes, and terror organizations.
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