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Supreme Court strikes down Oklahoma's grandfather clause in Guinn v. United States
In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court held that Oklahoma's grandfather-clause voting provision violated the Fifteenth Amendment, invalidating that mechanism of racial disfranchisement while recognizing that literacy tests, considered on their own, remained within state power.
President
Woodrow Wilson
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Partial
Topic
Courts / Voting Rights / Civil Rights
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In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court held that Oklahoma's grandfather-clause voting provision violated the Fifteenth Amendment, invalidating that mechanism of racial disfranchisement while recognizing that literacy tests, considered on their own, remained within state power.
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