The FordMcCulloch bill adopts the provision which was so strongly urged by the Attorney General in 1963 and 1964. so ably supported by the chairman of the committee. and so overwhelmingly adopted by the Housethat is. that a sixthgrade education is a presumption of literacy. Mr. Chairman. if an applicant cannot meet that test in any one of the States. he may be given a literacy test so long as it is in writing. I repeat. that is the test which we adopted. and that is the test which is the law of the land today. Yet there have been only a comparatively small number of months since that provision became the law of the land. and the Department of Justiceable and devoted and dedicated Department of Government that it is and has been. in these important fields. has filed only approximately 70 or less cases under the law of 1964.
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