Jim Crow laws are identified as the eight ways used to keep blacks from voting.
The following were the tactics used in the “Jim Crow South”:
- Violence
- Literacy tests
- Property tests
- Grandfather clause
- All-white primary elections
- Purges
- Prohibiting the votes of former prisoners
- Poll taxes
The State of Louisiana, Literacy Test: Q1-Q13
The above picture is a sample from the literacy test administered in Louisiana. This test is identified as one of the most difficult test that was administered during this era.