“The experience of Negroes in America has been different in kind, not just in degree, from that of other ethnic groups (...) These differences in the experience of the Negro make it difficult for me to accept that Negroes cannot be afforded greater protection under the Fourteenth Amendment where it is necessary to remedy the effects of past discrimination.”
                                                                         
                                                           Thurgood Marshall, 1978

Could you pass this test given to black people registering to vote in America in 1964?

Exemples of literacy tests in the Jim Crow South

 Alabama:

A white applicant might be given this passage: 

"SECTION 20: That no person shall be imprisoned for debt."

Whereas a black applicant would be told to read something like this out loud: 

"SECTION 260: The income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund, the surplus revenue fund, until it is called for by the United States government, and the funds enumerated in sections 257 and 258 of this Constitution, together with a special annual tax of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in this state, which the legislature shall levy, shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the public schools, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to increase the public school fund from time to time as the necessity therefor and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the state may justify; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the legislature to levy in any one year a greater rate of state taxation for all purposes, including schools, than sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars’ worth of taxable property; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the legislature from first providing for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the state and interest thereon out of all the revenue of the state."

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Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)