literacy test

The methods included a literacy test, economic pressure, and violence.

Under this act, all potential immigrants would have to pass a literacy test and pay a head tax.

A favorite plan was the literacy test to exclude workers who could not read or write their own foreign language.

When my grandparents came to this country, they had to pass a literacy test to become citizens.

Voters born after 1840 had to pass a literacy test and meet certain property requirements.

The federal government first employed literacy tests as part of the immigration process in 1917.

Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to do so by federal legislation in the 1960s.

Most importantly, it required people to pass a literacy test in order to gain the right to vote.

Like so many other black families throughout the south at the time, they were faced with literacy tests for "colored people."

The first formal voter literacy tests were introduced in 1890.

Then the African American would have to sit and take the literacy test while the white man only had to pay $1.50.

He compared the requirement to imposing literacy tests on voters.

He later announced that provincial welfare applicants would be required to pass a literacy test.

"Those were the days of poll taxes and literacy tests, and people would just turn up shot to death."

Poll taxes and literacy tests solved the problem of blacks voting.

Humiliating medical and literacy tests are carried out in recruitment centres.

Officials used the discriminatory literacy test to keep blacks off the voter rolls.

Nevertheless, literacy tests continued to be used to disenfranchise blacks.

The constitution of 1895 instituted a poll tax and also required voters to pass a literacy test.

In some parts of the United States, people were forced to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test before being allowed to vote.

The weapons would include literacy tests affecting voting rights.

Literacy tests, which had been widely used to deny Southern blacks the vote, were banned.

"He defended poll taxes and literacy tests which kept many Americans from voting.

The voting rights law, originally passed in 1965, eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes.

Citywide last school year, the number of fourth graders meeting standards on the state literacy test rose by 9.9 points, to 59.5 percent.