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David Joyner
@D_Joyner
Snow removal enthusiast - Comms @UMassLowell - Tweets don’t reflect my boss’s opinions, especially about hockey. Fan @MerrimackWIH and @MerrimackMIH
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
OTD in 1857 #Massachusetts voters decided to make future voters prove their literacy by reading a randomly drawn sample of the state Constitution and signing their name. It was the second state to do so — after Connecticut. (Clipping: New England Farmer) (1/4) Image The point was not education. It was to keep working Irish, many illiterate, from voting. The idea was sprung by Know-Nothings who’d swept to power three years earlier. (Clipping: Boston Evening Transcript) (2/4) Image