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15 April, 19:59

A literacy test shows whether a person can read or write. After Reconstruction, laws were passed that made voters take a literacy test before they could vote. The true purpose of the literacy test was to

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  1. 15 April, 20:16
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    The true purpose of the literacy test was to keep blacks from voting and therefore from obtaining any real political power, since many blacks were illiterate.
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