---
title: 'The North Carolina Suffrage Amendment'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Alexander Jeffrey McKelway'
date: 1900-08-16
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Politics'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 14'
- 'Galatians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mckelway-1900-the-north-carolina-suffrage-amendment
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# The North Carolina Suffrage Amendment

1900 editorial on North Carolina’s suffrage amendment describing literacy tests, “Red Shirts” intimidation, and the disfranchisement of Black voters after the 1898 Wilmington violence.

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