To Circumvent the Right to Vote Given to African Americans

question 30

Multiple Choice

To circumvent the right to vote given to African Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) , southern states employed various tactics including the white primary, poll taxes, and literacy tests. In Smith v. Allwright (1944) , the Supreme Court held that

• A) primaries based on race were illegal.
• B) poll taxes and literacy tests were unconstitutional.
• C) primaries were a matter for party control and could not be regulated by government.
• D) poll watchers and registrars must be dispatched by the U.S. Justice Department to nine southern states and parts of seven others.

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