Literacy test
Examination of a person's ability to read and write / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about citizenship and voting eligibility tests in the United States. For the standardized test in Ontario, see Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test.
A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments, particularly to immigrants. In the US, between the 1850s[1] and 1960s, literacy tests administered to voters had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans and other groups with diminished access to education. Other countries, notably Australia, as part of its White Australia policy, and South Africa adopted literacy tests either to exclude certain racialized groups from voting or to prevent them from immigrating to the country.[2]
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (June 2020) |