- Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
- Title:
- Citizenship Test, 1958
- Date of Original:
- 1956
- Subject:
- Voter registration--Georgia
Georgia--Race relations
Political rights--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Citizenship test from the Voters' Registration act of 1958 (Act 321, H.B. 718).
Applicants for voter registration were required to read and write a section of the Georgia Constitution as a literacy test. If they could not read or write, they could take an oral examination to demonstrate that they understood "the duties of citizenship under a republican form of government..." Applicants had to correctly answers 20 out of 30 questions. - Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/adhoc/id/552/
- Rights Holder:
- Users may download the images for personal or educational use
- Original Collection:
- Racial Breakdown Files, Elections Division, Secretary of State, 2-2-25-10
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
