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Poll taxes and literacy tests were established to limit the voting rights of

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Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans. The first formal voter literacy tests were introduced in 1890.

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