Voting such as poll taxes, fees that African Americans would be charged with just to be able to vote. When African american men wanted the right to vote like white men, they made a law called the “grandfather clause “. The Grandfather clause stated that if you were black and wanted to vote you could, although, there was a catch. The catch was that if your grandfather could vote, so could you. Although, there was more to it and if your grandfather could vote they would then make you pay a poll tax and you’d have to pass a literacy test. A prime example for a literacy test is when you are given a test and you have 10 minutes to complete it. However, the test was also given for someone who could not prove a 5th grade or higher education level. It is a challenge to complete, you have to be very careful and some of the questions were very specific in a way. If you thought to much into detail, then you would not past it at a high rate. Some people still have a tough time completing it now. This did however made an improvement when the Fifteenth Amendment was sanction. Shortly after, lawmakers were able to make this more active per
Voting such as poll taxes, fees that African Americans would be charged with just to be able to vote. When African american men wanted the right to vote like white men, they made a law called the “grandfather clause “. The Grandfather clause stated that if you were black and wanted to vote you could, although, there was a catch. The catch was that if your grandfather could vote, so could you. Although, there was more to it and if your grandfather could vote they would then make you pay a poll tax and you’d have to pass a literacy test. A prime example for a literacy test is when you are given a test and you have 10 minutes to complete it. However, the test was also given for someone who could not prove a 5th grade or higher education level. It is a challenge to complete, you have to be very careful and some of the questions were very specific in a way. If you thought to much into detail, then you would not past it at a high rate. Some people still have a tough time completing it now. This did however made an improvement when the Fifteenth Amendment was sanction. Shortly after, lawmakers were able to make this more active per