Literacy Test

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The Literacy Test was a feature of laws instituted in states controlled by the Democrat Party after the Reconstruction. It required voters to prove their literacy before voting, except those whom the grandfather clause exempted because their ancestors had been able to vote in 1867.

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• Jim Crow Laws
• Civil Rights
• Civil Rights Movement
• Poll tax
• Grandfather Clause