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In the "Jim Crow" (segregated) south, white people did everything they could to prevent black people from voting, even after constitutional amendments gave them that right. One common trick was a so-called "literacy test"-- it was supposed to be proof the potential voter could read and write, but only blacks were asked to take it, and it wasn't really a literacy test at all-- rather than proving a person could read, the assigned text was usually something very difficult to understand, and could thus be used to disqualify the black voter. Often the test included a reading at the PhD-level; the goal was to make sure that the vast majority of blacks (who had received an adequate but certainly not college-level education) would be unable to correctly answer questions about what they had just been asked to read.
Literacy tests were used to prevent African Americans from voting by giving them unfair tests such as reading Latin.
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When were literacy tests abolished?
1965
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
When were the literacy test abolished?
Literacy tests were abolished officially in 1965.
When were literacy tests abolished?
1965
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
Literacy Tests?
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.
What election practices did progressive argue for?
literacy tests
What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
How did the old laws against teaching slaves to read and write make a difference after the civil war?
They made literacy tests an easy way to prevent freed slaves from voting.
Of the election practices did progressives argue for?
Literacy tests--APEXVS
What other methods were used to stop blacks from voting?
Literacy tests
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep blacks from?
voting
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