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The video is about the right to vote of African Americans after the Civil War in the South.

Whites didn’t want them to vote so they enacted Jim Crow Laws. 

Southern Whites didn’t want them to be integrated into society / integrate society.

Black people in the South had to take literacy tests and had to pay a tax to vote. 

So, the Black population couldn’t vote: colored people were disenfranchised.

But poor and uneducated Whites couldn’t vote either.

So, White people bypassed the literacy test and the poll tax thanks to the Grandfather Clause: if your grandfather had voted, then you could vote.

 

Vocabulary:

Pay: payer

Be about: parler de

Be integrated into: être intégré à

Integrate society: intégrer la société

Either: non plus

Thanks to: grace à