Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

North Carolina voters will be asked to approved at least one constitutional amendment when they go to the polls this fall — to reaffirm the state's citizen-only voting rules — after state lawmakers ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...