Literacy test
A literacy test, in the context of American political history from the 1890s to the 1960s, refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans. For other nations, literacy tests have been a matter of immigration policy.
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- From Slavery to Serfdom -- Life for Black People in the "New South"
Life for the black people of the south got progressively more harsh after 1877. A sharecropping system entrenched itself that bordered on serfdom.
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