Which of the following is true of the Mississippi Plan?
A) It guaranteed African Americans their voting rights in the face of intense voter suppression efforts and established Mississippi as a haven in the South for former slaves.
B) It stripped African Americans of their voting rights, especially those who moved around as tenant farmers or were illiterate, and set a pattern of disenfranchisement that other states would follow.
C) It followed the lead of several other southern states in guaranteeing black civil rights as part of recognizing the important role former slaves had played in making King Cotton possible.
D) It removed the poll tax because unlike other regulations that hurt just poor African Americans, it also hurt many whites, signaling the decline of the new wave of racism.
E) It granted confiscated land to African Americans because white southern legislators were desperate to see signs of African American financial success in order to ease the South's economic problems.

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The Mississippi Plan was a set of strategies implemented in the late 19th century by white southern Democrats to disenfranchise African American voters. It included the use of literacy tests, poll taxes, and other barriers to voting that specifically targeted African Americans who were often illiterate and/or tenant farmers. This plan was replicated in other southern states, leading to widespread disenfranchisement of black voters in the region.

Which of the Following Is True of the Mississippi Plan