ext_36450 ([identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2012-11-12 09:30 pm (UTC)

You do realize that Jim Crow was not, legally speaking, ever a matter of white people banning black votes? You see it was always ensuring that literate citizens able to provide IDs with some basic civics familiarity were voting, not to mention able to pay poll taxes. On paper. When it came to enforcing those laws, OTOH.....

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