Outlawing of literacy test for voters.... damm i heate Anthropology...
Literacy is knowing how to read, so if you don't know how to read you can't pass a literacy test. It was against the law to educate a slave. A person who doesn't know how to read, think critically, and solve problems makes it easier to keep as a slave. One of the first things Hitler did when he invaded Poland was close the schools and kill the teachers. He wanted the people of Poland to be slaves. It was the same way in American slavery, so the literacy test was a means to keep people from voting even though they had the right to vote.
Because they were never taught to read, therefore having no chance whatsoever to vote.
The poll tax and the literacy tests were methods used to prevent certain classes of people from voting.The poll tax, aimed at lower socioeconomic classes, was a tax one had to pay in order to vote.The literacy test, generally implemented against African Americans pre Civil Rights movement, was a test whose alleged purpose was to determine that a voter could read the ballot; however many times authorities would give prospective voters foreign reading materials in order to ensure they weren't allowed to vote.
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
Voting act of 1965
literacy test
A test required for voting.
Literacy tests were abolished officially in 1965.
elimination of the literacy test for voters
the people
Literacy Test cuz they couldnt read
If you are referring to the literacy test that the south gave to African American voters during the reconstruction period after the civil war, they were given a literacy test and, if they failed, they were denied their right to vote. Mind you, the tests were very, very difficult.
Indian act or pig removal act
The literacy test basically says: Prove that you can speak English. If someone can't then we will be letting those who cannot communicate with us into our country
A literacy test is something that evaluates your ability to both read and write.
typically they were illiterate because they didn't have access to education and were unable to pass a literacy test. ^^^^ sometimes the case, but the people who gave the test made the standerd for the literacy tests incredibly high for blacks. it made it nearly impossible for the blacks to vote.