Sentence examples for literacy tests from inspiring English sources

There are no more literacy tests.

Instead of literacy tests, we now have rigid identification requirements.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes.

Some precincts formally imposed and selectively administered literacy tests; others resorted to ranker chicanery.

She said, "I thought back to Jim Crow laws, or literacy tests.

Teachers are threatening to boycott "meaningless" new literacy tests for primary school pupils.

Literacy tests, which had been widely used to deny Southern blacks the vote, were banned.

"And then I thought back to Jim Crow laws, or literacy tests.

The literacy tests that were still in effect throughout the region were immediately suspended.

It outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests and other practices designed to prevent blacks from voting.

"Black people made it past the poll tax, literacy tests, everything, to get the right to vote.