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Literacy  n.  State of being literate.






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"Literacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... resorted to the same test and poll tax in 1898 and North Carolina fell in line in 1900. Alabama established the residence, registry and poll tax requirement in 1901; and Virginia, Georgia and Oklahoma based suffrage on property, literacy or poll tax in 1902, 1908, and 1910 respectively. As these measures bore heavily also upon certain ignorant whites they were relieved of this disability by the "Grandfather Clause" specifying that the persons deprived by these regulations of the right to vote might be placed ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various



Words linked to "Literacy" :   acquirement, attainment, illiterate, accomplishment, skill, acquisition



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