Civil Rights: State of Louisiana Literacy Test

Here is a copy of the literacy test that we looked at in class:

http://rights.teachingmatters.org/files/Louisiana_Literacy_Test.pdf

This was used to deny African-Americans the right to vote because it was nearly impossible to pass this test.

Published in: on May 23, 2008 at 1:31 pm Comments (1)

New Unit: Civil Rights

For our final unit of the year, we will be studying different civil rights movements.  We will be using the Teaching Matters Civil Rights program to focus our work.

The website is:  rights.teachingmatters.org  (no www)

Published in: on May 21, 2008 at 11:56 am Comments (0)