In 1890, The Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from politics in the South. The Mississippi Plan (Literacy and 'understanding tests') lasted until November 1st of that year and was later adopted with embellishments by other states: South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina (1900), Alabama (1901), Virginia (1901), Georgia (1908), and Oklahoma […]
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