Read the following excerpt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

No person acting under any color of law may employ any literacy test as a qualification for voting in any Federal election unless such test is administered to each individual and is conducted wholly in writing ...

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn based on this excerpt?

A. States were giving literacy tests to some voters to keep them from qualifying to vote.

B. States were requiring all voters to take an oral literacy test in order to vote in a federal election.

C. Illiteracy was a big problem in the United States in the 1960s.

D. Most African-American voters could not read.

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16 November, 10:23

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Nathalia Sandoval · Answer 1

D because in the olden days do because in the olden days there were not a lot of black schools.