A group of state lawmakers in North Carolina is undertaking a new effort to eliminate a racist relic of the Jim Crow era that remains enshrined in the state constitution.
Literacy tests were popular mechanisms for disenfranchising African American voters for decades during the middle of the 20th century, until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally prohibited the practice. But the national legislation didn't do anything to officially remove offending voting measures from the state books. Article VI, Section 4 of North Carolina's constitution still reads, "Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language."
The Institute for Southern Studies reported this week that there was a new push underway to remove the language from the document:
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