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A de jure right to vote often did not translate to actual access to the franchise. States often enacted barriers such as poll taxes and literacy tests, exemptin
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
A de jure right to vote often did not translate to actual access to the franchise. States often enacted barriers such as poll taxes and literacy tests, exempting anyone whose grandfather was registered to vote (i.e. not Black people, whose grandparents had been enslaved). Such discriminatory practices were not actually outlawed until the Voting Rights Act was passed a full century later.
- konjin 6y agoThat's nice, but if someone has a right they can't exercise they are still more privileged than someone who doesn't have that right. Not to mention that the target of those laws were, now considered white, immigrants rather than the always minority blacks in the north.