This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
Literacy tests were abolished officially in 1965.
1965
poll taxes and literacy tests
literacy tests
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
They made literacy tests an easy way to prevent freed slaves from voting.
Literacy tests--APEXVS
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Literacy tests
The literacy test was intended to prevent African Americans from voting.