Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Movement

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The main reason southern states and localities implemented poll taxes was to:

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Poll taxes and literacy tests were the only ways Southern Whites disenfranchised African Americans.

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What was Jim Crow?

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Match the action or event with the outcome.

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24th Amendment (1964)
Prohibited poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)
Banned literacy tests, outlawed racial discrimination in voting
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Affirmed "separate but equal" doctrine
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
1965 Voting Rights Act
Racial segregation of children in public schools was ruled unconstitutional.
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What was lynching? Where did it occur? Was it done in public or private?

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Rosa Parks was the first African American who was arrested for refusing to comply with a Jim Crow law.

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Why did the arrest of Rosa Parks prompt a reaction among African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama?

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The passing score for the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test was

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Poor whites and white women had to pay poll taxes.

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The Voting Rights Movement began when Martin Luther King came to prominence.

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In 1957, African Americans were admitted to public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas under the protection of: