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We took a 1964 Louisiana literacy test. The test was 30 questions and had to be completed in 10 minutes. One wrong answer resulted in failure.

The literacy test was administered to both white and black prospective voters who couldn't prove a certain level of education. However, the tests were disproportionately administered to black ...

By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about the video featuring current Harvard students taking—and bombing—the Louisiana literacy exam. [fragment number=0] The exam was given to blacks in 1964.

One literacy test in particular, administered in Louisiana, was designed to trip up candidates with convoluted phrasing. There were 30 confusing questions, and the entire test had to be completed ...

White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...

More than 130 years after Mississippi imposed a poll tax and literacy test to keep Blacks from voting, President Biden others warn that Jim Crow-style disenfranchisement is resurfacing in efforts ...

The tests, however, came under intense scrutiny for their alleged racial bias, after just 46 percent of Hispanic test-takers and 41 percent of black test-takers passed it on the first try ...

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and ...