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The Louisiana Literacy Test of 1963 is astonishing. Impossibly difficult and truly evil. I think I’ll give it to my students.

The website of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans, which collects materials related to civil rights, posts samples of actual literacy tests used in the South  during the 1950s and 1960s. These tests were designed to prevent African Americans from voting in local elections. They were purposely difficult and confusing, and many times, the questions were…

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