Armon Hightower
Literacy: What Is It Exactly?
“We have always used our creativity to battle and we’re not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because...
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Literacy and the Black Vote
By Armon Hightower
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Statistics: Literacy Performances in the United States
Literacy can be seen as the foundation for people to function in everyday life as we receive and give out information constantly....
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The Dark History of the Black Vote
Before the 1963 Voting Rights Act was signed, giving black people the right to vote has been a struggle beforehand. Prior to the...
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Fighting Back: C.O.R.E.
Activists found ways to resist against discriminatory laws and practices that invented black disenfranchisement (like literacy tests and...
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Black Disenfranchisement
The main device that was used to disenfranchise black people from voting was the infamous literacy test which exploited the loopholes of...
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A Deeper Look into the Insidious Literacy Test
The first part asked about information of the applicant’s identity, which took up a half of the first page and requested information such...
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Bloody Sunday and the Voting Rights Act
" I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama for the right to vote. I am not going to stand by and let the supreme court take...
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