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Style propaganda schools. which means you are dumber than somebody who has gone to school. >> people who come to america who don't speak english as a first langage is passing the test. it has to do with investing in america. >> how about having a literacy test? >> it's against the law. it violated the amendments -- >> it does not. >> it's against the 1965 voting rights act -- >> it does not. in case anyone pulls this on you, viewers the truth of the matter is fake literacy tests were used by democrats after the civil war to prevent blacks from voting. >> and then the law changes 100 years late...

Water fountains. >> reporter: sam was living in a segregated selma. >> i don't have a reason to be depressed or dejected. i look at one of these walls. these walls represent a victory, you know. they represent a victory for the people. >> reporter: today, he nearly single handily protects both troubling and inspirational mementos that provide viv veds detail about bloody sunday like the sheriff's night stick, worn shoes from marchers and photographs. all at the selma voting rights museum. walker. >> just because you're a young person don't think you can't make a difference, okay. >> reporter: ...

In those day, you couldn't go to a regular hospital because they couldn't see you if you were black or sympathized with blacks. >> confine the civil rights struggle today. >> it's quite different from the struggle of yesterday. and this is what has to be brought home. because in those days, to work for voting rights, you had literacy tests. my mentor said what was the literacy test i asked him? he said the question was how many bubbles are there in a bar of soap. you couldn't pass the literacy test. you had grandfather clauses. you had property tax requirements to vote. all that stuff has gone...

There were three great civil rights bills. voting rights was one of them. the voting rights act of '64, when lbj's staff after kennedy's assassination said, don't go with that bill. you're going into an election year. and lbj said what the hell is the presidency for? and he went with it and he got it passed. voting rights was on his agenda. sure, education was and that conversation with dr. king, he points out there will be billions for your people for education. there will be billions for health care. but the most important one is voting. if they get the vote. and the day when we came back fr...

Law. the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit is a 93-year-old woman. the name on her birth certificate doesn't match the name on her driver's license and it will cost both time and money to fix that under the new law. eaton faced a literacy test when she first voted 70 years ago. she had crosses burned on her lawn and gunshots fired into her home for helping register african-americans to vote. today, she's still fighting for her right to vote. joining me now is rosa nel eaton. thank you for being here, ms. eaton. >> thank you for having me. >> now decades after jim crow, could you have ever imagined...