Describe the statutory techniques used in the South to render the Fifteenth Amendment's voting guarantees ineffectual for African Americans. When statutory techniques did not work, whites resorted to terror
What forms did intimidation through terror take? How long did preventing voting through terror last?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the techniques used, including the poll tax, which many African Americans could not afford; the literacy test, in which the local officials who determined the results rarely passed blacks but allowed whites who failed the test to vote under the grandfather clause; and the white primaries, which excluded African Americans from the nomination process.
2, Identify forms of intimidation through terror, including night riding, bombings, and lynchings.
3, Note that terror as a means of preventing voting remained a factor until the 1960s, when the civil rights movement and federal intervention finally ended it.
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