You might have seen this story about an incarcerated teacher in an Illinois prison who was fired from his teaching position there for having the audacity to claim that the literacy tests used in the Jim Crow South were part of a racist scheme to suppress the black vote.
My parents (who were from Vermont and NYC, white, born in the early 1920s, and college educated) moved to Northern Virginia in 1961. To register to vote they had to take a test that was given in a white woman's home. They were not able to answer most of the questions but were deemed to have passed the test. Yes, they knew exactly what would have happened if they had not been white.
My parents (who were from Vermont and NYC, white, born in the early 1920s, and college educated) moved to Northern Virginia in 1961. To register to vote they had to take a test that was given in a white woman's home. They were not able to answer most of the questions but were deemed to have passed the test. Yes, they knew exactly what would have happened if they had not been white.