Primary Sources
Review Literacy Test- must pass reading and writing tests in order to vote Most set up for people to fail Poll Tax- citizens must pay tax to vote Most blacks could not afford this tax Grandfather Clause- men whose grandfathers voted before 1867 were exempt from poll tax and literacy tests Blacks were slaves and could not note in 1867
Origin of Jim Crow White performers painted cork on their faces to resemble Blacks They danced and sang- Minstrels “Wheel about and turn about and do just so, every time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow” Laws named after these characters
Poll Tax Cartoon
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)