Taking a Jim Crow-Era Literacy Test

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Mr. Beat and Sharon McMahon (@sharonsaysso) struggle through a Jim Crow-Era literacy test that determined whether or not African Americans had the right to vote.

Sharon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharonsaysso/
Sharon's website: https://sharonmcmahon.com/

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J27T1NJyOslOJ8g4W-h8YALmNIdyJ2N6y-Cp2uFL5A8/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/exhibits/aale/pdfs/Voter%20Test%20LA.pdf
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
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A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner
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https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/get-out-the-vote/disenfranchisement
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2690142/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test

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