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Students Leam
History lesson
the Hard Way
By Saeed Ahmed
Staff Writer
Students at a Greensboro,
N.C., high school got a bitter
lesson in history when they
learned that the test on the U.S.
Constitution they failed was
actually the 1965 Alabama
Literacy Test — designed to
keep African-Americans from
voting.
None of the ninth grade
Honor students at Page High
School who took the test last
week came close to passing,
even though they had studied
the Constitution the previous
two weeks.
The Literacy Test was one
of the many instruments of Jim
Crow discrimination in the
segregated South. It requires
takers to get at least 61 of 68
questions correct and while
some are relatively simple, the
rest of the questions are
difficult for all but the most
serious students of the U.S.
Constitution.
Even until a few decades
ago, Blacks residents of
Alabama had to pass the test
to vote.
Teacher Amber Prock who
administered the test at Page
said the students went home
thinking they had failed a
routine pop quiz, and were not
informed of its significance
until the next day.
"I told them, 'Look how
upset you were because this
affected your grade. Imagine
how you'd feel in 1965, when
this affected your life'," she
said.
Prock, a student at
Appalachian State University
who is spending the semester
at Page, said the test was part
of a lesson for the Kids Voting
project, a national campaign to
make lifelong voters out of
children.
At Page High, it worked.
Students said they now
better appreciate the rights
they took for granted. Ninth
grader Trevor King said he
thought the test was more than
just a way to keep people from
voting.
"It was a way to diminish
them as human beings, to
make them feel inferior to
whites," he said.
The students were later
relieved to learn the grade for
the test would not count*
The Literacy Test was one of the many instruments
of Jim Crow discrimination in the segregated South.
It requires takers to get at least 61 of 68 questions
correct
St. Petersburg Tense after Police Slaying
“We got a pattern in this neighborhood, ...
The cops need to stop killing people. They had Mace.
They didn’t have to shoot that boy.”
Johnny Williams
By Louis Clotman
Campus News Editor
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - In
a mood of suppressed anger,
hundreds of mourners
gathered for the funeral of a
black youth whose shooting
by a white officer ignited a
night of rioting.
Police stayed away from
the area as a mostly black
congregation gathered in
memory of 18-year-old Tyron
Lewis at the Bethel
Metropolitan Baptist Church
November 2.
Dr. Joseph Lowery,
President of the Southern
Christian Leadership
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young black men.
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he was going to run him down
and his partner as they
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Petersburg, a city whose
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"We got a pattern in this
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Williams, 52. "The cops need
to stop killing people. They
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Democratic Uhuru Movement
held their own memorial.
Wielding flags and
screaming through bullhorns,
they demanded the execution
of the police officers involved,
as well as Police Chief Darrell
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