But would the gentleman be able to respond to the key factor in that particular decision. namely that for a number of years the particular State in question did in fact maintain its inferior schools and that the whole legislative history of the Voting Rights Act suggests and makes overwhelmingly clear that the purpose of this act was to give every citizen. regardless of his lack of training in literacy. an equal opportunity to vote. If blacks had had separate but equal. but truly unequal. opportunity. then they were simply not in a position to live up to the literacy test even if that is of a meaningless character? That is the basic constitutional thrust and. with all due deference. I have not heard the gentleman from Virginia speak to that.
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