1. Among other provisions, the Voting Rights Act made some literacy tests illegal. 2. The Commission recommended a literacy test and the possibility of annual quotas. 3. These rankings are based on the Literacy Test and the EQAO results. 4. States such as Alabama also exercised discrimination in the application of literacy tests . 5. In the 1850s, Connecticut and Massachusetts imposed literacy tests on disfavored Irish immigrants. 6. It is reminiscent of the poll tax and literacy tests of Jim Crow. 7. Such measures included poll taxes, literacy tests and barring blacks from political primaries. 8. They also were subjected to literacy tests and made to answer irrelevant questions. 9. Presidents Cleveland and Taft vetoed literacy tests in 1897 and 1913. 10. Some states used grandfather clauses to exempt white voters from literacy tests altogether. 
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