Father Christmas, The (1898-1915) After Reconstruction (1865–1877), many southern states in the United States passed the Grandfather Clause, a law that made it possible for prospective white voters to avoid literacy exams, poll taxes, and other methods used to deny southern blacks the right to vote.
Grandfather clause is a legal or constitutional provision used by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
It stated that persons who had the right to vote before 1866 or 1867, as well as their lineal descendants, would not be subject to subsequently established voting restrictions on education, property, or taxes.
Those restrictions effectively prevented Black people from voting while guaranteeing the right to vote to many poor and illiterate white people because the former slaves had not been granted the right to vote until the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted in 1870.
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