The courts applied the same standards to us in New York as are applied to covered jurisdictions in the South. After 2 years of litigation and three appeals to the Supreme Court. New York was denied an exemption. The case was lost because of evidence introduced by the New York NAACP which showed that our literacy test. like Virginias. was adopted for a discriminatory purpose. and that minority voters in New York. like those in Gaston County. N.C.. were more likely to be illiterate because they had attended inferior schools. Section 5 has been applied to a large number of State and local laws in New York.
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