Katzenbach v. Morgan Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained

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Katzenbach v. Morgan | 384 U.S. 641 (1966)
By the 1960s, New York City had a large population of people who had grown up in Puerto Rico. At the time, New York State law required all voters to pass a literacy test, in English, before they cast a ballot. New York officials argued that this law was meant to encourage immigrants learn English and intelligently exercise the franchise, but there was evidence that the law was passed out of prejudice in an effort to disenfranchise non-English speakers. Even though Puerto Rican migrants were entitled to vote, because their primary education had been in Spanish, they couldn’t pass the literacy tests.
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[@ErikaEsquire]

is there a typo at 1:20 when Morgan is saying "New York's literacy test is valid"? Shouldn't it say the N.Y. literacy test is invalid?

[@swatregret]

i still dont get it, what was the decision? Did they do away with the test? or did the supreme court say it was okay to keep the test?

[@actanonverba3041]

A federal law did away with the test, and the Supreme Court said that federal law was Constitutional.