| 1. | Among other provisions, the Voting Rights Act made some literacy tests illegal.
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| 2. | The Commission recommended a literacy test and the possibility of annual quotas.
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| 3. | These rankings are based on the Literacy Test and the EQAO results.
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| 4. | States such as Alabama also exercised discrimination in the application of literacy tests.
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| 5. | In the 1850s, Connecticut and Massachusetts imposed literacy tests on disfavored Irish immigrants.
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| 6. | It is reminiscent of the poll tax and literacy tests of Jim Crow.
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| 7. | Such measures included poll taxes, literacy tests and barring blacks from political primaries.
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| 8. | They also were subjected to literacy tests and made to answer irrelevant questions.
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| 9. | Presidents Cleveland and Taft vetoed literacy tests in 1897 and 1913.
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| 10. | Some states used grandfather clauses to exempt white voters from literacy tests altogether.
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