The right to vote was enshrined in the North Carolina Constitution, giving to African Americans the right to participate on equal grounds with Whites in the vote.
G. K. Butterfield: “The right to vote was enshrined in the North Carolina Constitution, giving to African Americans the right to participate…”
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Highlighting the historical voting rights granted to African Americans in North Carolina.
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Now the Supreme Court is going to have to decide whether or not State courts have any authority whatsoever over election laws within the State.
The State supreme court ruled that the congressional map was an extreme, intentional partisan gerrymander and directed legislature to fix it.
We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.





