In October, resident-tutor Carl L. Miller and student Dennis Ojogho asked a random assortment of Harvard students to take the 1964 Louisiana literacy test.
Miller told BuzzFeed News in an email that the video was designed to show the importance of voting and to connect the test to "any efforts today that are out there trying to limit people from voting," including Voter I.D. laws in the South.
Miller added, "People think tests like these were given out hundreds of years ago. They weren't. It was 50 years ago. My grandparents were forced to take them."
The test is insanely long...
...and the questions are completely insane and unrelated to literacy.
This guy wasn't too fazed by the test...
...until he found out that he had to get every single question right in order to vote.
After a few of the questions, some students got so discouraged they gave up.
In the end, every student failed the test. None of these Harvard students would have been able to vote in 1964 Louisiana.
