Reposted by Doug Thompson
Reminder that literacy tests never tested literacy. They were an excuse to bar people the registrar disagreed with (usually on the basis of skin color) from voting.
This is a video of me, a voting rights historian, failing those same literacy tests. www.tiktok.com/@phdrachel/v... 🗃️
tiktok.com
Lets talk #literacytests & #votingrights #vivek #historian #historiansoftiktok #historytok @generic.human🍉
TikTok video by PhDRachel