Question
What was a method used by state governments to prevent African Americans from voting?
What brought major improvements to the lives of African Americans in the South?
2. How did Poll Taxes prevented African Americans from voting?
What did Brown y Board of Education do?
Answer
1. Poll taxes were a method used by state governments to prevent African Americans from voting.
2. Major improvements to the lives of African Americans in the South came from the civil rights movement, which included the desegregation of public schools and other institutions, the passage of civil rights legislation, and the enforcement of voting rights.
3. Poll taxes were a fee that had to be paid in order to vote, which was often too expensive for African Americans to afford.
4. The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.