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Take the impossible “literacy” test Louisiana gave black voters in the 1960s

by Rebecca Onion

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    For the past 40 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
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