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Chapter 5: Civil Rights (African Americans (Racial segregation (Poll taxes…

- - - - used to keep certain groups from voting by charging a fee to vote.
    - - Reading or comprehension tests that citizens are required to pass to demonstrate their fitness to vote.
  - - - Whites were exempt from passing the literacy test, but African Americans had to pass the literacy test in order to vote. This clause was ruled unconstitutional in 1915.
    - - laws requiring separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites in public facilities. The Supreme Court ruled such laws unconstitutional in 1954.
  - - - Deliberately disobeying laws viewed as morally repugnant.
  - - - The landmark law that outlawed racial segregation in schools and public places and barred discrimination in employment based on sex.