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Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
For this activity, you’ll be doing two things: first, you will be reading and evaluating four web sites. For each, you must:
The Sites
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- Determine, using the CRAP test, whether or not the site is a reliable source.
- Determine one new and important fact about poll taxes and literacy tests.
- Determine, using the CRAP test, whether or not the site is a reliable source.
- Determine one new and important fact about poll taxes and literacy tests.
The Sites
- Techniques of Direct Disenfranchisement, 1880-1965
- Literacy Tests
- Purpose of poll tax literacy test and actions of the KKK
- Grandfather Clauses, Literacy Tests, and the White Primary
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