Read the excerpt from Up from Slavery by Booker T. WashingtonI do not believe that any state should make a law that permits an ignorant and poverty-stricken white man to vote, and prevents a black man in the same condition from voting. Such a law is not only unjust, but it will react, as all unjust laws do, in time; for the effect of such a law is to encourage the [Black man] to secure education and property, and at the same time it encourages the white man to remain in ignorance and poverty.
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Voting laws that are not enacted equally are unfair.B
Unfair laws encourage people to seek higher education.C
States should prohibit people from voting if they live in poverty or are uneducated.D
States should not make laws allowing White men to vote while preventing [Black men] from voting.