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60 Second Civics: Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws mainly targeted African Americans and took the form of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
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60 Second Civics: Fifteenth Amendment: Threats and Violence
Even though African Americans were given the right to vote after the Civil War, most experienced barriers to voting and did not exercise this right until the civil rights movement one hundred years later.
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60 Second Civics: Voting Rights: Violence Against Mexican Americans
Despite being given the right to vote in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Americans were the target of violence and racism, and were subject to tactics similar to African Americans, e.g., literacy tests, to prevent them from voting.
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60 Second Civics: Fifteenth Amendment and Suffrage
While the Fifteenth Amendment was meant to clear the way for disenfranchised groups to vote, most Southern and some other states put obstacles in place to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.