A video showing Harvard students trying to pass a 1964 Louisiana Literacy test was released on Monday to bring awareness to barriers to voting in the past. The video was launched just prior to Tuesday ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...

Turning back the clock, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Shelby County v. Holder, struck down the key Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally required nine states (Texas ...

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and ...