North Carolina is a hotspot in the struggle for voting rights, and certain effects of voter suppression are clear: Today, in 44 counties the disenfranchisement rate for Black people is more than three times the rate of the white population. James L. Leloudis, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-chair of the UNC Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward and co-author of Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina Robert R. Korstad, professor of public policy and history at Duke University's Terry Sanford School of Public Policy and co-author of Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina