50 Years Later, Harvard Students Take And Fail Louisiana Literacy Test

The same test they used to shut out blacks from the polls.
By Anonymous — November 14, 2014
A group of Harvard students were recently asked by their tutor to take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test – a test known to be notoriously confusing that was really only put in place used to stop thousands of poor black citizens from voting. Much to their surprise, they failed. Not a single one of his student…

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