A video showing Harvard students trying to pass a 1964 Louisiana Literacy test was released on Monday to bring awareness to barriers to voting in the past. The video was launched just prior to Tuesday ...

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HOUSTON — Voting wasn’t even an option for Black people and many other minorities in the United States until the 1963 March on Washington helped bring about radical change in this country Two years ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...

Turning back the clock, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Shelby County v. Holder, struck down the key Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally required nine states (Texas ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...