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1 Primary Sources

2 Review Literacy Test- must pass reading and writing tests in order to vote Most set up for people to fail Poll Tax- citizens must pay tax to vote Most blacks could not afford this tax Grandfather Clause- men whose grandfathers voted before 1867 were exempt from poll tax and literacy tests Blacks were slaves and could not note in 1867

3 Origin of Jim Crow White performers painted cork on their faces to resemble Blacks They danced and sang- Minstrels “Wheel about and turn about and do just so, every time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow” Laws named after these characters

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5 Poll Tax Cartoon

6 Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

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