A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

> Why? Because of the typeface and the numbered list?

Yes, the typeface. And the numbered list looks suspicious too, now that you mention it. Also the kerning (look at the renderings of fi and fr in the document).

It wouldn't be the first time something like that gave away a forgery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy.

I've seen documents from the 60s and earlier, and they never look like someone banged them out in MS Word with Times New Roman.

Check nneonneo's comment [1]. The test pictured in the featured article was retyped and reformatted from an earlier version, though the test itself might not be authentic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909793