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What is the grandfather clause?
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The grandfather clause is a provision in the United States Constitution that allows voters to be registered automatically if their grandfather had voted. The grandfather clause effectively exempted illiterate whites, but not blacks, from the literacy test. Blacks received the right to vote in 1870 under the Fifteenth Amendment, so almost no African Americans at this time had voting grandfathers because they were among the first generations of African American voters.