In honor of election day, I thought I’d share this. It’s the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test that was given to prevent African-Americans from voting. You better know your Constitution if you are going to pass this test! Give it to your students and see how they do! Ask them if they think the average citizen today would be able to pass this test. Aren’t you grateful you don’t have to pass this in order to vote? If you don’t have time to cover it in class, print it out and have students come by and do it after school for extra credit.