Literacy+Test+Used+in+Alabama

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III. Event Represented by the Artifact/Significance
Before the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, literacy tests were used in many Southern and Western states to prevent blacks and Latinos from registering to vote.

IV. Date and Place
The literacy test above was used in Alabama before the Voting Rights Act made such tests illegal.

V. Multimedia Found on the Internet
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VIII. Curators
Susan Jayne, Jerome Hughes, Rex Wells, and Larry Burke

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