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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (314)	5/28/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 880

Here's a better explanation of how tests were used: From: clayton.edu In devising laws to disfranchise blacks males (black females, like white women, had never voted), the Southern states had to find ways to evade the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment. That measure had not guaranteedsuffrage to blacks; it had simply prohibited states from denying anyone the right to vote because of color. The Southern problem, then, was to exclude blacks from the franchise without seeming to base the exclusion on race. Two devices emerged before 1900 to accomplish this goal. One was the poll tax or some form of property qualification; few blacks were prosperous enough to meet such requirements. Another was the "literacy" or "understanding" test, which required voters to demonstrate the ability to read and to interpret the Constitution. The laws permitted local registrars to administer impossibly difficult reading tests to would-be voters or to rule that their interpretation of the Constitution was inadequate. Exactly what Zolt proposes. Dragonfly