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Given that literacy tests before voting are illegal and people fought against them, they are.
by orthoxerox 6y ago
Given that literacy tests before voting are illegal and people fought against them, they are.
- monsieurbanana 6y agoLiteracy tests were used to keep people of color -- and, sometimes, poor whites -- from voting, and they were administered at the discretion of the officials in charge of voter registration. If the official wanted a person to pass, he could ask the easiest question on the test -- for example, "Who is the president of the United States?" The same official might require a black person to answer every single question correctly, in an unrealistic amount of time, in order to pass. -- From https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html