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Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters could serve on juries. The plaintiff, Henry Williams, claimed that Mississippi’s voting laws were upheld with the intent to disenfranchise African Americans, thus violating the Fourteenth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court did not find discrimination in the state's laws because, even though the laws made discrimination possible, the laws themselves did not discriminate against African Americans. The court found that any discrimination toward African Americans was performed by the

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rdfs:comment	Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters could serve on juries. The plaintiff, Henry Williams, claimed that Mississippi’s voting laws were upheld with the intent to disenfranchise African Americans, thus violating the Fourteenth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court did not find discrimination in the state's laws because, even though the laws made discrimination possible, the laws themselves did not discriminate against African Americans. The court found that any discrimination toward African Americans was performed by the (en)
foaf:name	(en) Henry Williams v. the State of Mississippi (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	United States elections case law Joseph McKenna List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 170 United States Supreme Court cases Constitution of Mississippi Legal history of Mississippi African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement Jim Crow Poll tax 1898 in United States case law African-American history of Mississippi United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Disfranchisement Grandfather clause Guinn v. United States L. Ed. Supreme Court of the United States Plessy v. Ferguson Literacy test Poll tax (United States) Voting Rights Act U.S. LEXIS
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.uakron.edu/centers/conflict/docs/Behrens.pdf http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep170/usrep170213/usrep170213.pdf https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/170/213/
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Holding	There is no discrimination in the state's requirements for voters to pass a literacy test and pay poll taxes, as these were applied to all voters. (en)
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has abstract	Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters could serve on juries. The plaintiff, Henry Williams, claimed that Mississippi’s voting laws were upheld with the intent to disenfranchise African Americans, thus violating the Fourteenth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court did not find discrimination in the state's laws because, even though the laws made discrimination possible, the laws themselves did not discriminate against African Americans. The court found that any discrimination toward African Americans was performed by the administrative officers enforcing the law and that there was no judicial remedy for this kind of discrimination. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Joseph McKenna List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 170 List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Fuller Court Voting rights in the United States Index of articles related to African Americans List of landmark African-American legislation Timeline of African-American history 170 U.S. 213 Constitution of Mississippi Melville Fuller Cornelius J. Jones Dual federalism African-American history Alabama Constitution of 1901 Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era Government of Mississippi

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