1. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
... ', stipulating that one could only vote if one's grandfather had had the vote. By 1910 'grandfather clauses' were being used in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama and Oklahoma. There were 130,344 black voters registered in Louisiana in 1896, but by 1900 only 5,320 remained. African Americans in the United States would not see an end to their racial discrimination until ... ...
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