North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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 ...
WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...
Black Americans were allowed to vote beginning in 1869 when the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was passed. Except in several Southern states -- and eventually in Oklahoma -- that required literacy ...
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to the rights ...
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