An elite handful drove the national literacy-test campaign

Evidence

The league was born at a meeting of five young blue bloods in the law office of Charles Warren, later a noted constitutional historian. Although the founders hoped for a time to build the league into a mass movement, its active members never exceeded a handful. Probably no more than twelve ever came to a meeting. The founders were practical-minded intellectuals from well-to-do, long- established families, steeped in Boston ways and Boston ideas. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 605

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The literacy test was a respectable cover for racial discrimination — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 602; Learned elites, not centralization alone, determine whether a party can read an electorate — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 834; Targeted interventions can raise a nation’s average intelligence level

Broader Connections

• Learned elites, not centralization alone, determine whether a party can read an electorate #corroborates (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 834
• Targeted interventions can raise a nation’s average intelligence level #corroborates (0.70)