Question

Question #4897c

Answer 1

The Civil Rights movement was necessary to put an end to that practice

Explanation:

Literary tests prevented African Americans from being enfranchised and succeeded quite well since the Civil Rights movement was the only solutio nto put an end to it.

Answer 2

Many African Americans did not have the educational opportunities to enable them to pass the literacy test

Explanation:

Before the Civil War most southern states had laws against teaching African Americans how to read. Keeping the African Americans illiterate helped to keep the slaves in subjection. Preachers taught falsely that the Bible condemned all the sons of Ham to be slaves. If the African Americans had been able to read the Bible for themselves they would have known this to be false. Also knowledge is power and preventing reading prevented the slaves from having any power.

After the Civil War the African Americans could not read and therefore could not pass the literacy test. Then when schools were available to African Americans the schools were inferior in every way to the schools where the white population were able to attend.
The literacy test were designed to be more difficult than the educational standards of the African American schools. This made it almost impossible for most African Americans to pass the literacy test.

There was also discrimination in the administration of the literacy test. A poor reader who was white would be able to pass the test because of hints and helps. A good black reader who was black ( rare )would often be failed unfairly just because he ( later she) was African American.

The lack of literacy opportunities for African Americans and discrimination in the testing made it possible for the Southern States to greatly restrict the opportunities for African Americans to vote using the literacy tests.