"... more Negroes will vote in this election than ever before."
anonymous leaflet distributed in Columbus County, N.C., 1990
43 number of discriminatory laws in N.C. blocked by the Voting Rights Act, 1982–2006
81% of registered voters in N.C. who are white, 2012
22% who are black
Of North Carolina's eligible black citizens ...
15% were registered to vote in 1948
36% in 1963
50% after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, 1965
71% in 2008
Sources: "Voting Rights in North Carolina, 1982–2006," Center for Civil Rights, UNC School of Law; U.S. Department of Justice
