This is the memory palace, I'm Nate DeMail.

Sit down. Take a pen. Pansel is fine.

Write this down.

Section 269. Every devise or bequest of lands, tenements or hereditements,

or any interest therein, a freehold or less than freehold, either present or future,

vested or contingent, or of any money directed to be raised by the sale thereof,

contained in any last will and testament or codicil, or other testamentary writing,

in favor of any religious or ecclesiastical corporation, soul or aggregate,

or any religious or ecclesiastical society, or to any religious denomination or association or

persons, or to any person or body politic, in trust, either expressed or implied, secret or

resulting, either for the use and benefit of such religious corporation, society, denomination or

association, or for the purpose of being given or appropriated to charitable uses or purposes,

shall be null and void, and their heir at law shall take the same property so devised or bequeathed,

as though no testamentary disposition had been made.

Now write in essay interpreting that statute. If you're black, if you're white, the registrar,

who was also white, who was always white, at the Monroe County Courthouse in Canton, Mississippi in

1964, would give you a different passage from the state's constitution to write and interpret.

A single sentence, and then a simple answer, and if you couldn't get it right, if you couldn't

read or write, you could and certainly would be way of through as a person of high moral standard,

and be allowed to vote, allowed to exercise or write granted to every American male over the age

of 21, by the 15th amendment since 1870, and to every American female over the age of 21 by the 19th

amendment since 1920, the same rights that were denied by design by what they called literacy laws

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