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LITERACY TEST
Having secured the Civil Rights Act in 1964, President Johnson made passing the Voting Rights Act the focus of his 1965 legislative agenda. Motivated by the deadly racial violence at the hands of the police during the marches of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Selma Voting Rights Campaign, Johnson proposed the new law to Congress on March 15, 1965. Herblock quotes the president, and by depicting a white police officer grappling with the text, implied that African Americans had been denied their constitutional rights.
Literacy Test, 1965. Published in the Washington Post, March 17, 1965. |