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The Civil Rights Act did not allow discrimination in which area?
Outlawing of literacy test for voters.... damm i heate Anthropology...
Why were Southerners successful in using literacy tests to keep African-Americans from voting?
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.
Why did literacy test keep former slaves from voting?
Because they were never taught to read, therefore having no chance whatsoever to vote.
What was the poll tax and literacy test?
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.
Why were southerners successful in using literacy test to keep African Americans from voting?
Most African American had not learned to read while they were slaves
