Question

HELP PLEASE
How did the state's Democratic officials eliminate most of the black vote in Oklahoma in 1915?

Asked blacks not to vote.

Blacks were not accustomed to voting in the first place

Literacy tests

When blacks showed up to vote, they were turned away

Answer 1

Hello @CC12

Answer 2

Hello

Answer 3

What do you think the answer is?

Answer 4

Honestly I think its C.

Answer 5

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/guinn-v-united-states-1915

"At the time of its statehood in 1907, Oklahoma’s original Constitution allowed men of all races to vote. Within one year of statehood, however, the legislature amended the original State Constitution to provide for a literacy test, e.g., the ability to read and write any section of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma. "

".S. government attorneys, however, narrowed their argument in Guinn v. United States, only to the validity of the “grandfather clause” itself, conceding that literacy tests were acceptable if written to be racially neutral. "

Answer 6

Historically, black literacy rates were low in the South, for obvious reasons.

Answer 7

That's to say that as a race in the region, they were quite illiterate and could not pass such tests in order to vote. I don't know how making a literacy test 'racially neutral' would help at all, with not being able to read.

Answer 8

Thanks so much