A video showing Harvard students trying to pass a 1964 Louisiana Literacy test was released on Monday to bring awareness to barriers to voting in the past. The video was launched just prior to Tuesday ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The time has long since come to eliminate the literacy test for voter registration from ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...
Prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many states instated so-called literacy to hinder African-Americans from voting. Given to African-American voters who didn't have a certain ...
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