Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1695: Literacy Tests Grandfather Clauses & Poll Taxes
Laws passed after the Civil War made it easier for African American men to vote, but some states passed laws to stop them. In some states, African Americans to pass a literacy test and pay a poll tax. See how these tests affected those...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 14: Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
Southern states after the Civil War devised many methods for preventing African Americans from voting.
Center For Civic Education
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.
Center For Civic Education
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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Native Americans and Voting: Part 5
The 24th Amendment of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 addressed inequalities in voting rights for Native Americans and other minority groups, and removed blocks such as literacy tests and language fluency.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Candace Fleming
In second grade, Fleming discovered a passion for language. She can still remember the day her teacher, Miss Johnson, held up a horn-shaped basket filled with papier-mache pumpkins and asked the class to repeat the word "cornucopia." She...