Examples from workbooks that the Citizenship School teachers used to teach applicants what to expect with Alabama's literacy test when they went to register to vote. (Courtesy Veterans of Civil Rights ...

The myth of election fraud has fueled a barrage of new voter restrictions in the past two years. States, including several in the South, have made the election process more challenging for voters with ...

Alabama’s literacy tests were not the same for every test-taker. Notoriously, tests given to African-Americans tended to contain harder questions. Workbooks used in Citizenship School, where blacks ...

Earlier this week we posted a video of a group of Harvard students taking — and failing — a 50-year-old literacy test. The 1964 Louisiana Voter Literacy Test was originally distributed to ...

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 — ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to the rights ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue faculty, still not persuaded that civics illiteracy is the problem on campus that President Mitch Daniels believes it might be, on Monday slowed – even more – a plan to ...

Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...