| 31. | White Democrats had poll taxes, and other barriers, such as residency requirements, and subjective literacy tests.
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| 32. | The Mississippi constitution no longer requires literacy tests or poll taxes to keep blacks from voting.
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| 33. | Blacks were solidly poll taxes and literacy tests.
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| 34. | In part to curtail the use of literacy tests, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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| 35. | The grandfather clause was used in many states temporarily to exempt illiterate white voters from literacy tests.
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| 36. | In 1970, Congress amended the Act and expanded the ban on literacy tests to the entire country.
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| 37. | For instance, white administrators supervised reading comprehension and literacy tests that highly educated black people could not pass.
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| 38. | Other general provisions specifically outlaw literacy tests and similar devices that were historically used to disenfranchise racial minorities.
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| 39. | The ILC can help students arrange to complete the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test and community involvement activities.
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| 40. | Passed in 1965, this law prohibited the use of literacy tests as a requirement to register to vote.
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