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Re: Literacy Tests



        Check our United States of America vs. Theron C. Lynd, Registrar of Voters
for Forrest County, Mississippi.  The finding aid is at:
                http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m027.htm
        -- Bobs Tusa


At 04:09 PM 09/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Seems to be my day for asking for help . . .
>
>A colleague is looking for a copy (or excerpt) of the sort
>of literacy test formerly used in some Southern states
>to disenfranchise African-Americans.   We haven't
>found anything here in my shop, but we did think that
>maybe a congressional committee might have entered
>some as evidence during the hearings that led to the
>Voting Rights Act of '65.
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Ed Frank
>
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Bobs M. Tusa, Ph.D.
University Archivist
William D. McCain Library and Archives
The University of Southern Mississippi
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