Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

[Groanman]

Louisiana Voter Literacy Test, circa 1964. Via the Civil Right Movement Veterans website.

Louisiana Voter Literacy Test, circa 1964. Via the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website.

Louisiana Voter Literacy Test, circa 1964. Via the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website.


***Keep in mind, folks were given only 10 minutes to complete this bullshyt.
One wrong answer resulted in a FAILED test.
White voters almost ALWAYS passed this test.....even if there were numerous wrong answers.
The white people who administered the test determined if a voter passed or failed.......so.....you know.***

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

***Oh it's a hoot now. But just imagine having to go through that bullshyt***



***By the way***

US President at the time was Lyndon B. Johnson.....DEMOCRAT
Louisiana Govenor at the time was John McKeithen.....DEMOCRAT
And countless mayors in Louisiana were DEMOCRAT at the time.

 

[Colicat]

10 minutes

All those fukking instructions?

If I was able to read the directions then I proved I was literate

The fact that anyone had to prove literacy is

No taxation without representation not no taxation without literacy

 

[mannyrs13]

I would've failed.

 

[NBA Youngbreh]

We had to do that shyt in AP history Don't forget about the grandfather clause to

 

[ba'al]

We had to do that shyt in AP history Don't forget about the grandfather clause to

I had dropped Ap History for shyt like that Everyone in that class had a big ass backpack. nikkas gone have back problems in they 20's.

 

[DaPresident]

This some EVIL ish right here man...








some cold hearted folks whomever thought of this to make basically illiterate folks TRY and pass (which probably 99% failed) just to vote SMH

 

[TL15]

about to take it... I'll edit with results

Edit:

about me... 29 year old...MBA grad last year

time 8:29

Spoiler: My answers

#1 (could have failed right here since it has a 1 wrong answer failure rule )
I drew a line around "number"

#2 drew a line under "line"

#3 crossed out "longest"

#4 Drew a line around "a" (it becomes a word as a supplement for the word "one")

#5 circled "a" in alphabet

#6 three circles within each other like the target logo

#7 drew a cross above X

#8 line through "b"

#9 line through "z"

#10 drew a "t" in the first circle

#11 crossed out 4 zeros

#12 drew a line under circle 2 up and above circle 4 and connects to circle 5

#13 crossed out 29, 22, 26, and 25

#14 drew a line under "i" and a line through "l"

#15 "esion" with a dot over the "o"

#16 drew a triangle with the circle that overlaps the left corner

#17 next number is 32

#18 "12" is the missing number

#19 drew the figure (larges to smallest): square, triangle, circle, dot inside

#20 "backwards"

#21 wrote the word VOTE upside down

#22 placed a cross over "s" , a line between "place" and "a", and I circled "the" before second

#23 drew a square, drew a diagonal line from top right to bottom left, then drew a horizontal line from the middle of the square

#24 wrote the word "mom"

#25 Paris in the spring

#26 wrote a "q" in the third square

#27 "right"

#28 drew a vertical line and a small straight line in the middle, extended the straight line with curved lines going down

#29 write, other, in, first, And, every, word, same, other, this, and, third,same

#30 drew five circles with the same interlocking point

the test is definitely geared toward tricking people and the fact that you aren't allowed to miss one of these questions

The ONLY thing I can see the point of is that this is to supplement proof of a fifth grade education. I don't know how you would prove it otherwise but if you have a HS diploma you wouldn't have had to take it.

overall

FOH

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

And yet.....probably none of us vote. We really take voting for granted and im guilty of that.

 

[audemarzz]

Damn . . . This is some dirtball shyt . . .

 

[unit321]

What was fifth grade back then?
That was partially a logic exam, as opposed to a literacy test. Not only that, some of the questions had missing commas that make the question difficult to understand.


I wonder if they just let white folks vote even if they messed up.

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

I would have passed this shyt easily. . Still a fukked up thing to do.

 

[Colin X]

I would've failed too

 

[Rekkapryde]

I would have passed this shyt easily. . Still a fukked up thing to do.

 

[Luken]

And yet.....probably none of us vote. We really take voting for granted and im guilty of that.

voting really wont make a difference for us until american blacks have economic power like Tarique said, until then, black voters are just helping everybody else for free.

 

[Eczema]

I would have passed this shyt easily. . Still a fukked up thing to do.

In 10 minutes? Stop lying Holmes