Name three ways that local jurisdictions tried to inhibit African-Americans from voting ....?

Question

.... prior to the Voting Rights Act

Answer 1

1.   Putting 2 polling booths in a population of 50,000 + in poor neighbor  hoods (does not matter the race), so that every year many Americans are unable to vote.

Answer 2

Poll tax, Jim Crow laws, Outright intimidation

Answer 3

Literacy, do not let to register and violence after registration.

Answer 4

1.  Poll tax until the Supreme Court said that was blatenly to keep blacks from voting.

2.  Shortages of voting equipment, ballots and such.

3.  Hostile people at the polls volunteering to run the voting places.

4.  Blocked streets, claiming the need to do street repairs.

5.  Locating voting places that are a long distance from public transportation.

6.  Bribing local leaders to advocate non voting as a means of resisting a racist political system.

7.  Requiring forms of identification before getting a ballot that many black folk did not have in those days.

8.  Surrounding polling places with a lot of uniformed people with side arms, to remind the blacks that are considering coming out publicly to vote who "the man is."

9. Failing to publish the location of voting places, relying, instead, on word of mouth, and you can guess the color of the skin of the mouths what were passing locations along.

10.  In ways too numerous to list here, sending all kinds of messages out into the black community suggesting that they lacked sufficient "personhood" to entitle them to vote.