The use of literacy tests during the post-Reconstruction years aimed to drive African Americans out of politics by imposing discriminatory requirements.
Literacy tests during the post-Reconstruction years were primarily used to disenfranchise African Americans from politics. These tests were intentionally designed to be discriminatory, with officials administering easier passages to white individuals and harder passages to Black individuals. The goal was to prevent African Americans from registering to vote by imposing literacy requirements that many had not been able to meet due to historical educational disadvantages.
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