Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr ... or "(C) employ any literacy test as a qualification for voting in any Federal election unless (i) such test is administered ...

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 ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep.

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise ... It was part of our constitution. The Voting Rights Act essentially nullified this ...