jan 5, 1890 - Literacy test
Description:
A literacy test assesse a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Administered by various governments to immigrants and this had the effect of disenfranchising African-Americans and others with diminished access to education.Blacks having no education because they couldn not go to school could not vote.
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Date:
jan 5, 1890
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~ 136 years ago