Many southern states used so-called literacy tests as a way to deny blacks the right to vote.

许多南部州采用所谓的读写测试，来剥夺黑人的选举权。

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

国会花了好几年时间才通过了一项法律，要求对移民进行识字测试。

There was still discrimination at the polls like poll taxes and literacy tests that prevented many African Americans from voting.

民调显示歧视仍然存在，就像选举税和读写能力测试，它们限制了许多非裔美国人的投票。

Many legal forms are like modern day literacy tests.

许多法律形式就像现代的识字测试。

Now there would be no more literacy tests.

现在不会再有识字测试了。

Some proposed a literacy test. Immigrants would have to show that they could read and write. An immigrant who could not, would not be permitted to enter the country.

有人提议进行识字测试，移民必须证明他们能够读写。不能读写者，也不能移居美国。

The only way we're ever going to have equal rights in America is if we get rid of the modern day literacy tests and poll taxes that dominate our courts and legal system.

我们要在美国拥有平等权利的唯一途径是，如果我们摆脱现代识字测试和主导我们法院和法律制度的人头税。