Title: Anti-literacy laws in the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Anti-literacy laws in the United States
Anti-literacy laws in the United States
State anti-literacy laws
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Content: 1829, Georgia: Prohibited teaching blacks to read, punished by fine and imprisonment
1832, Alabama and Virginia: Prohibited whites from teaching blacks to read or write, punished by fines and floggings
1833, Georgia: Prohibited blacks from working in reading or writing jobs (via an employment law), and prohibited teaching blacks, punished by fines and whippings (via an anti-literacy law)
1847, Missouri: Prohibited assembling or teaching slaves to read or write
A 19th-century Virginia law specified: " [ E]very assemblage of negroes for the purpose of instruction in reading or writing, or in the night time for any purpose, shall be an unlawful assembly. Any justice may issue his warrant to any office or other person, requiring him to enter any place where such assemblage may be, and seize any negro therein; and he, or any other justice, may order such negro to be punished with stripes." In North Carolina, black people who disobeyed the law were sentenced to whipping while whites received a fine and/or jail time. Restrictions on the education of black students were not limited to the South.