id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cfr-25132	Lester, Neal A.	Life for Me Ain't No Crystal Stair; Readin', Writin', and Parental (Il)literacy in African American Children's Books	2003	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11512	567	60	(4) After slavery ended, literacy continued to be a weapon of white supremacy used against black social and political participation: Literacy or other tests as a condition for voting were suspended by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 initially only in those states in which Congress found there had been pervasive discrimination against blacks in registration and in which literacy tests had been specifically designed to disfranchise racial minorities. As Violet J. Harris explains in African-American Conceptions of Literacy: A Historical Perspective, African Americans hold many of the same views [on the sacredness of education as white American citizens]; they, too, maintain an unstinting belief in the power of literacy to effect essential political, cultural, social, and economic change.	cache/cfr-25132.pdf	txt/cfr-25132.txt