Blacks were prevented from voting, for example, by obstructions like property and literacy tests (which whites were not required to pass), poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that allowed only those who had voted before 1865 and their descendants to cast votes (which disqualified virtually all blacks, who had not been allowed to vote at that time). Capone: The Man and the Era. The magnetism of the orator cools 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/1920s-tv-and-radio, "1920s: TV and Radio The old Klan had targeted the newly freed African Americans of the South, as well as a few people who supported them. Capone was also known as the most ruthless and brutal of organized crime figures. 16. Fearing that their children would receive the death penalty, their parents hired Clarence Darrow (18571938), a famous Chicago defense lawyer who had saved many clients from execution. //