Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the south after the reconstruction era primarily to

Keep African Americans from voting. It kept them from voting because most of them could not read and the grandfather clause meant if your grandfather voted then you were eligible to vote but since African Americans could not vote at the time neither could they.

Ifound this on google “the act represented the first effort since the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases. president bush had used his veto against the more comprehensive civil rights act of 1990.” for more information go to the website below › wiki › can you mark me brainliest?