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A Vestige of the Jim Crow South: North Carolina’s Literacy Test
22 minutes Posted Mar 30, 2021 at 9:36 pm.
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When is the last time you read the North Carolina constitution? It’s an exercise generally reserved for the ... most passionate political followers. So, it may come as a surprise that our state still has a literacy test on the books. On The Politics Podcast, a law professor and state legislator explain why a literacy test — even if not enforceable — remains the law in North Carolina and what efforts are underway to remove it.