Which statement about the south after 1890 is false?
a. whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abolish the jim crow laws.
b. populists in some states openly courted black votes.
c. poll taxes and literacy tests were used extensively to disfranchise blacks.
d. segregation policies were upheld by court cases like plessy v. ferguson.
e. the elimination of black voting rights could not have been accomplished without the approval of the north.