What is Literacy test?
{{No sources}} A '''literacy test''' is a [[test]] of [[literacy]]. People have been tested for the power to read and write for a long time. In much of the 20th century, literacy tests were used to keep [[African American]]s from [[voting]]. Voters had to have some kind of [[knowledge]] of the [[United States]] and the test taker would ask how many [[U.S. state|states]] there were and how many [[Senate|senators]] were in each state. Then the African American would have to sit and take the literacy test while the white man only had to pay $1.50. This was another way the [[Jim Crow laws]] [[Racial segregation|segregated]] or separated whites from blacks. {{multistub|US|history}} {{Literacy}} [[Category:Discrimination]] [[Category:Tests]]