Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era primarily to

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Keep African Americans from voting. It kept them from voting because most of them could not read and the grandfather clause meant if your grandfather voted then you were eligible to vote but since African Americans could not vote at the time neither could they.

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