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Nation’s 1st Literacy Test for Voting

21 May Nation’s 1st Literacy Test for Voting

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Connecticut adopts the nation’s first literacy test for voting. Massachusetts follows suit in 1857. The tests were implemented to discriminate against Irish-Catholic immigrants.

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