Harvard students fail 1964 Louisiana literacy test AA voters had to take in order to vote
The GOP claims that civil rights legislation has held African Americans back. I am so tired of their revisionist history.
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A group of Harvard students were recently asked by their tutor to sit the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test - a notorious document with confusing questions that was used to stop black citizens from voting.
Just 50 years ago, states in the South asked voters who couldn't provide proof of a fifth grade education to pass the test in order to be eligible to cast a ballot.
The test was intended to disenfranchise African-Americans, who in order to pass had to correctly answer all 30 questions in 10 minutes.
Despite their Ivy League pedigree, none of the students managed to pass the test and their reactions as they struggled to make sense of the obtuse questions was filmed.
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I've been stuck on #10 for at least 4 minutes.
Stupidest test I've ever seen.
I forgot to add this: 
I still want to know the answer to #10!
Of course, the registrar could always say that there is no word beginning with uppercase 'L' so the examinee should have wrote that instead. 
... interpreted wrong if.....I was Black.
SSAKCALBYMSSIK
