In the wake of Reconstruction, southern states used all of the following means to disenfranchise black voters EXCEPT
A. literacy tests.
B. poll taxes.
C. explicit racial prohibitions on voting.
D. property qualifications.
E. grandfather clauses.
Answer: C
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