A Link To Actual Jim Crow Literacy Tests Used In Alabama

[Yavin4]

Some intrepid blogger should race to that convention and ask these folks some of these questions:

The Alabama Literacy Test History: http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.htm

Actual tests: http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.pdf

Other Sample Questions:

1. What body can try to impeachments of the president of the United States? ________________
2. A person appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court is appointed for a ___________ term.
3. When the Constitution was originally approved, how many states had to ratify it in order for it to be in effect? _________________
4. Prior to the adoption of the United States Constitution, the organization of states was known as _______________________.
5. Of the original 13 states, the one with the largest representation in the first Congress was __________________.
6. What words are required by law to be on all coins and paper currency of the United States? _________________________________________________
7. Which of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights: public education, employment, trial by jury or voting? ________________________
8. What officer is designated by the Constitution to be president of the Senate of the United States? ________________________________
9. To serve as President of the United States, a person must be how old: 35, 40 or 45 years of age? ________________
10. The first sentence of the United States Constitution is called the Preamble. True or False? ________________
11. The electoral vote for President is counted in the presence of two governmental bodies. Name them: _________________________ and ________________________.
12. If no candidate for President receives a majority of the electoral vote, who decides who will become President? ___________________________
13. The president is forbidden to exercise his or her authority of pardon in cases of __________.
14. If the president does not wish to sign a bill, how many days is he or she allowed in which to return it to Congress for reconsideration? __________ days
15. At what time of day on January 2nd each four years does the term of the president of the United States end? _________________
16. Can a state coin money with the consent of Congress? Yes or No? _______________
17. The power to declare war is vested in _____________________.

[LearnedHand]

1. Let's give this to thePukes before THEY vote

Excellent! (Glad it's no longer Jim Crow, though)

[Ian David]

3. No, let's just ask them these six questions before they vote.

1) In what country was President Obama born?
2) What religion is President Obama?
3) The Communists in Russia over-threw the _______
4) Being Gay is (a) A Choice (b) Something probably determined mostly by genetics
5) America's official Religion is (a) Christianity (b) The Goddess Columbia (c) Catholicism (d) None
6) Who was the last President to leave office with a surplus?

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[Berry Cool]

7. Wow, that pizza delivery was FAST!

Thanks, mods!!! Served up hot and fresh!!!!

[Ian David]

18. What did I miss?? n/t

[dalaigh lllama]

2. I wonder how many Americans could actually pass that?

My husband told me in one of the books he was reading, it said one of the tests had the question: "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?"

[backscatter712]

4. I'm a political science major, and I can't answer all of those questions.

I have college education on the subject, and while I got a lot of the answers, I didn't get all of them.

And I'll bet the way they're administered, you flunk if you don't get 100% (or are allowed to skip the test through the original Grandfather Clause.)

[Berry Cool]

9. Oh yeah, the whole point of these tests was that they were not really passable.

There were always trick questions that no one could possibly answer correctly, which then could be used to flunk the taker.

[Bluebear]

6. 'Some intrepid blogger should race to that convention and ask these folks some of these questions'

PERFECT. Oh that it would happen!

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Is number 15 a trick question?

I could pass that test. Unfortunately, I know many people who cannot. I'll bet Sarah Palin couldn't.

Speaking of Mrs. Palin, does anybody know who she will appoint to head the Department of Law in the White House if she is elected president?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. Number 15 is a typo.

That's January 20th, at noon.

I'm not sure when they changed the Inauguration Day--back during FDR days, maybe?

[Touchdown]

11. So they got the 0 and the "nd" wrong?

riiiight!:D

[Historic NY]

March 4, 1932 was the last time the 20th Amendment change that in 1933..

[Historic NY]

17. March 4, 1932 was the last time the 20th Amendment change that in 1933..

[Yavin4]

12. The Whole Damn Test Was A Trick

A trick to keep Black folks from voting.

[Posteritatis]

14. Weren't blacks or politically-inconvenient whites the only ones who had to take it, too? (nt)

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Did some illiterate freeper write these questions?

1. What body can try to impeachments of the president of the United States?

:wtf: Obviously not a native English speaker. LOL

[Number23]

15. Interesting. Thanks for this.

[Raine]

16. Geeesh I doubt that many elected officials

could answer these. :argh: