As mentioned earlier, Jim Crow laws in various states required that Black people pass a specially created literacy test in order to vote. This test was waived for White people, or they had a separate simpler one.
See here an example of a literacy test used in 1960 in the state of Louisiana: https://www.treeoflogic.com/literacy_test.htm
And here’s what Alabama used in 1965: https://secure.splcenter.org/page/67431/survey/1?locale=en-US
How well did you do on the tests?
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