What law prevented African Americans from voting?

Question

What law prevented African Americans from voting?

Answer 1

A whole group of laws were enacted in various jurisdictions after the Civil War to try to prevent African Americans from voting. They were collectively called Jim Crow laws, and ranged from having to provide proof of ownership of property to having to demonstrate some sort of subjective erudition in some off-the-wall subject. They were all put down pretty permanently by the permutations of the Equal Opportunity laws of the 1960s.

Answer 2

huuuuuuuh?! where did you hear that from?

Answer 3

Jim Crowe laws, the were a series of them.  They did not prevent voting, but made it next to impossible to do so.

Answer 4

African Americans below 18 years old are not allowed to vote

Answer 5

Sorry to only give you a reference, but there is a very detailed account of how the republican party stopped many democrat supporters from voting in one of Michael Moore's books.  You have to realize, Michael Moore has been endlessly ridiculed, by the mass media, because his comments are much closer to the truth than those of the mass media.  Politicians exercise much control over the content of the mass media, no matter how much they protest otherwise.

Answer 6

You are asking a question that should include a time period.

There are no laws that now prevent African Americans from voting.

There were many procedures  that previously prevented African Americas from voting.

Slaves did not vote. They were not even considered as people. They were called property by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case about ten years before the war.

After the Civil War there were as quoted in other answers the infamous Black Codes which prevented slaves from voting. In addition literacy tests , intimidation, Ku Klux Klan and the  grandfather clause kept former slaves from exercising their franchise.

I am not proud proud of our legacy in this matter.

Answer 7

Laws that established tests for voter registration.  These included literacy and history tests that were selectively applied.

Answer 8

i don't know.

Answer 9

Poll taxes were one method where they were charged money to vote.  People whose grandfather voted were exempt or some such thing.