Date: May 9, 1962
Subject: Literacy Tests for Voting
Description: Mansfield (D-MT)-Dirksen (R-IL) motion to invoke cloture and limit debate on the administration bill which would require that anyone with a sixth grade education must be passed in a literacy test for voting in federal elections.
Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 43-53
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