theGRIO REPORT - 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... A video showing Harvard ...
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 ...
At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...
New York policymakers hit back Monday at critics who said a plan to eliminate a literacy test from the state's teacher certification requirements would lead to unqualified teachers in classrooms ...
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Would You Be Able to Pass a World War I Military Literacy Test?
Though reading and writing might not come to mind as the first requirement for trench warfare, during the early 20th century, ...
July 4 is always a fine time to double-check how much you know about how the U.S. government works. Local 10 partner WKMG reported that according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 878,500 ...
Participants in 401(k) plans aren't smart about financial literacy, a survey from AllianceBernstein shows. Nor could most of them answer these 8 questions about finances. New research from ...
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