With the use of Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes local governments had found a way to abide by the new amendments but still prevent African-Americans from voting. ... This opinion, in turn, sparked both support and opposition, including numerous attempts to trim the power of the Court in succeeding decades." ... The Voting Rights Act eliminated Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and other voter examinations and allowed federal examiners to register Black voters in many Southern counties. ...

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Mississippi was able to prevent blacks from registering through a multitude of institutional blockades; poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were all (at the time) legal methods by which minorities were kept from participating. ... For example, Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, and his death sparked a period of apathy toward the backwards "justice" system of Mississippi. ...

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Conspiracy Forty years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas, Texas. Within hours the government had arrested their man, Lee Harvey Oswald, and there was no doubt he was guilty; he was convicted immediately in the court of public opinion. For decades after the public has been only told that he was the lone assassin and that every detail is withheld for "national security". Not until a few years ago has anyone been able to uncover why and what really happened to President Kennedy. ...

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