John Carlos Baez on Nostr: I can answer most of the questions on the Louisiana Literacy Test, created in 1964 to ...
I can answer most of the questions on the Louisiana Literacy Test, created in 1964 to suppress the vote, shortly before such tests were outlawed. But these three are hard even more me!
And the would-be voters had just 10 minutes to answer 30 questions like this.
I believe the test worked like this: there was an easy version and a hard version. Black would-be voters got the hard version.
From Open Culture:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html
And the would-be voters had just 10 minutes to answer 30 questions like this.
I believe the test worked like this: there was an easy version and a hard version. Black would-be voters got the hard version.
From Open Culture:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html