They would. One, there were barriers to voter registration, so they wouldn't allow black residents to register to vote. And that was one problem where Even though they had 50% black population in certain states, there were zero registered voters from those communities. Then finally, when black residents started to get registered to vote, then they made it more difficult to actually cast a ballot. That's where they would do things like literacy tests, and they would. (04:44–04:54)
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