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BHM 2026 by QCT | Post #71835 NC Constitution: When Black Votes Were Erased 
"One drop" rule applied: Anyone with African ancestry to the fourth generation was barred.
1900 Grandfather Clause: Let whites skip literacy tests & poll taxes if their ancestors voted pre-1867—while Black voters, descended from the enslaved, were locked out.
Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1915... but the damage was done.
These racist tactics set the stage for Jim Crow laws—and fueled the decades-long fight leading to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 
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