Here are the numbers. 15,000 eligible black voters in Selma, Alabama. How many were actually registered to vote? Out of the 15,335. What's happening? Why did more register? Because They put a test down, a literacy test, before they could vote. And you had to pass that test to be eligible to vote. And they asked constitutional questions like, the Constitution has a phrase, letters of mark and reprisal. (02:14–02:20)
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Asserts that literacy tests were used to prevent black Americans from voting.
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