1 abr 1895 año - Grandfather Clause

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basically said your ancestors had to have voted for you to vote (slaves didn’t so blacks now couldn’t); exempted from literacy tests and poll taxes; Dealt Populist movement a blow; completely eradicated interracial appeals; even Tom Watson himself began to advocate for black disenfranchisement; bitter irony of Populism in the South

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