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what was the real purpose of having to take a literacy test before voting after reconstruction

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Most African Americans lacked education in that time period. So, literacy tests were given basically to stop African American men from voting. If they could not "pass", they could not vote. African Americans got harder tests than whites.

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