Myers v. Anderson
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myers-v-anderson-307-7223044
title:
Myers v. Anderson
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Myers v. Anderson, 238 U.S. 368 (1915), was a United States Supreme Court decision that held Maryland state officials liable for civil damages for enforcing a grandfather clause. Grandfather clauses exempted voters from requirements such as poll taxes and literacy tests if their grandfathers had been registered voters, and were largely designed to exempt white voters from restrictions intended to disenfranchise former black slaves and their descendants. Despite striking down the Maryland law as
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1915 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_v._Anderson
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2023-10-25T16:46:43Z
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