All Southern States imposed new voting restrictions and denied legal equality to African Americans.

🔺Poll Tax: An annual tax that formerly had to paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote.

🔺Grandfather clause: A provision that exempts certain people from a law on the basis of previously existing circumstances – especially a clause formerly in some Southern states’ constitutions that exempted whiles from the strict voting requirements used to keep African Americans from the poll.

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