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The '''Literacy test''' was a [[Jim Crow Laws|Jim Crow Law]] instituted in the southern states after the [[Reconstruction]].  It required all voters to prove their literacy before voting, but the [[grandfather clause]] exempted people whose ancestors had been able to vote in 1867 from the literacy test.  In this way, the literacy test prevented many [[African American]]s from voting.<ref>US Government and Poltics</ref>
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*[[Jim Crow Laws]]
 
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*[[Civil Rights]]
 
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*[[Civil Rights Movement]]
 
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*[[Poll tax]]
 
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*[[Grandfather Clause]]
 

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