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The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.

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The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.

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Amina Stehr

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Literacy tests and poll taxes were used to keep the newly-freed African Americans from voting. Because many blacks could neither read nor write (for the literacy test), and were poor (and so could not afford to pay the poll tax), they were kept from voting.

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The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.

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