| 41. | _Education : " You teach a child to read and he or her will pass a literacy test,"
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| 42. | The new 1901 Constitution of Alabama included provisions for voter registration that effectively poll tax and literacy test.
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| 43. | Most importantly, it required people to pass a literacy test in order to gain the right to vote.
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| 44. | Provisional ballots cannot be a literacy test, preventing all but the most sophisticated voters from casting valid votes.
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| 45. | Under this act, all potential immigrants would have to pass a literacy test and pay a head tax.
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| 46. | A major issue was his government's plan to make welfare recipients undergo mandatory drug testing and literacy tests.
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| 47. | Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to do so by federal legislation in the 1960s.
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| 48. | Those were the days of poll taxes and literacy tests, and people would just turn up shot to death.
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| 49. | As the public voice of the Immigration Restriction League, Lodge argued in support of literacy tests for incoming immigrants.
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| 50. | Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century.
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