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What was used to prevent African American men from voting in the late 1800s?
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What was used to prevent African American men from voting in the late 1800s?

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Poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud and intimidation all turned African Americans away from the polls. Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the "grandfather clause " to keep descendents of slaves out of elections
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