Tagged: politics

Take the impossible “literacy” test for black voters in the 60’s (3 pictures)

A “literacy test” refers to the government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potential voters at the state level. The federal government first employed literacy tests as part of the immigration process in 1917. Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process as early as the late 19th century.

Egypt….Explained!

The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood go back over half a century and they are much more complicated than the press tends to give them credit for.

Pangea modern geopolitical borders

This is what our earth would have looked like 300-million years ago if it had modern political borders. Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago.