Makes me sick.

Per the link, it is a 3 page test.

Find the entire test here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html

(Since it was only the first page of 3 that needed to be completed in 10 minutes) that he could not go out this weekend.

He and his girlfriend who happens to be over got the point.

20. Spell backwards, forwards.
27. Write right from the left to the right as you see it spelled here

With 100% as the passing grade, forget it. Pretty evil shit.

If they'd given it to all voters, it would still be an absurdity. WTF does that crap have to do with the right to vote?

If your grandfather had the right to vote, you automatically had the right to vote without taking the test. Obviously this only applied to whites in practice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

And in US law, nothing is supposed to have to do with who your parents are, at least, political rights.

Looking at the directions, it refers to proving a 5th grade education, too. Likely it was harder for a black person in that place and time to do.

Notice is also says "do as you are told." It's like a test in being able to follow directions. Has nothing to do with politics or voting.

during the 1960s. The Amistad Center has several examples on file. They include multiple-choice quizzes on the name of the first president, a mail carrier’s employer and the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Complicating the search is the fact that the Louisiana State Archives did not exist in the 1960s. Meg Casper, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Tom Schedler, said all archives workers can verify is that a test was given and that there were 10 forms of it.

Longtime political historian Frank Ransburg, 70, said he had to write the preamble to the constitution when he registered to vote in 1964. He said other black residents had to figure out how old they were to the month and the day in order to pass the voter registration test.

“They didn’t do it by standardized thing everywhere. Some people tell me ... they were asked how many bubbles are there in a bar of soap,” Ransburg said ...

La. voter registration test is mystery for historians
BY MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
Capitol news bureau
July 21, 2013

a cup of water. You put soap on your finger and stuck it in the water. The film forced the pepper to the sides. The story that went with it was how black kids were kept out of the public pool. So strange that such a racist kids' trick was in my childhood. I'm sure nobody else remembers it. Not what my family was about at all. Sure I goated my father about being an anglophile when I got back from university and having taken African history, which was all about the other side of British & colonial history, I gave him grief. I guess every generation changes. Learns & grows a bit. Doesn't happen fast enough though.

This should be administered to anyone attempting to register as a Republican