sentences:  This was the second-highest total in the state, a number of extrajudicial murders that two other counties also had.At the turn of the 20th century, the state had passed a new constitution in 1868 and later laws erecting barriers to voter registration that effectively disenfranchised most blacks, ending their political progress for decades, after African Americans had been elected to Congress from this state and there had been a Republican-Populist fusionist slate.Both governors Charles Aycock and Robert Glenn, elected in 1900 and 1904, respectively, ran campaigns to appeal to whites.