Take The Close to Unimaginable Literacy Take a look at Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)

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In William Faulkner’s 1938 nov­el The Unvan­quished, the implaca­ble Colonel Sar­toris takes dras­tic motion to cease the elec­tion of a black Repub­li­can can­di­date to workplace after the Civ­il Conflict, destroy­ing the bal­a number of black vot­ers and shoot­ing two North­ern automobile­pet­bag­gers. Whereas such dra­mat­ic technique of vot­er sup­pres­sion occurred typically sufficient within the Recon­struc­tion South,…