Review this document: “What a Colored Man Should do to Vote” https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbaapc.33200/?sp=1
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Answer the following questions. The point of this assignment is 1) review the difficulties of voting during Jim Crow, 2) use historical evidence and quote from the source to explain the typical voting experience for black Americans in the South. This link about the poll tax in Virginia should provide you some helpful background information. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/poll-tax/
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1. What was the purpose of this pamphlet?
2. What were some of the methods used to limit voting in the southern states? Be specific. Provide quotes.
3. Look at the rules in Virginia. Even though race is not specifically mentioned, how could the rules there be used to limit black men from voting? provide examples! (remember that women of any race did not get the federal right to vote until the 19th Amendment in 1920)
