{"id":1603,"date":"2020-08-24T06:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2020-08-24T06:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:05:59","slug":"can-you-pass-this-discriminatory-voting-literacy-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2020\/08\/24\/can-you-pass-this-discriminatory-voting-literacy-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you pass this discriminatory voting literacy test?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The literal tests were intentionally complicated, confusing if not nearly impossible to pass. Whites were rarely required to take the tests, and if they were, they were &#8220;passed&#8221; by poll administrators.\u00a0<br><br>To make matters worse, the literacy tests often consisted of more than 30 questions and had to be taken in 10 minutes. You were not allowed to answer any question incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you pass this discriminatory voting literacy test? <a href=\"https:\/\/a.msn.com\/r\/2\/BB18as8m?m=en-us&amp;referrerID=InAppShare\">https:\/\/a.msn.com\/r\/2\/BB18as8m?m=en-us&amp;referrerID=InAppShare<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The literal tests were intentionally complicated, confusing if not nearly impossible to pass. Whites were rarely required to take the tests, and if they were, they were &#8220;passed&#8221; by poll administrators.\u00a0 To make matters worse, the literacy tests often consisted of more than 30 questions and had to be taken <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2020\/08\/24\/can-you-pass-this-discriminatory-voting-literacy-test\/\" title=\"Can you pass this discriminatory voting literacy test?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[486,205,268,487],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books-awareness-and-reading-for-knowledge","tag-black","tag-literacy","tag-racism","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}