Category: Suffrage
Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters
The Birmingham News has an in-depth article by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…
The 1901 Alabama Constitution Was Justified Based on Civil War and Reconstruction History
Earlier this month I wrote about the effort in Alabama to delete racist language in its constitution put in during the decades after Reconstruction in…
Kate Masur’s New Book on America’s “First Civil Rights Movement” Reviewed Again in the NY Times!
America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur has been reviewed for a second time by the New York Times…
How Terror Succeeded in Louisiana: Racial Violence and the Election of 1868 in One State
One of the few bright spots for Democrats in the 1868 Presidential Election was the State of Louisiana. 71% of votes tallied were for the…
Freedmen’s Bureau Report for Virginia Sept. 30, 1868-The trials of whites for the murder of Negroes
By October, 1868, when this report on the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia was published, the Bureau was just three months away from…
David Blight: Don’t Tear Down the Lincoln Statue in Washington
David Blight has an op ed in the Washington Post contra calls to remove the statue of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator in D.C. Here…
“The fundamental principle of Democracy is that Negro Suffrage is wrong” Debating the 15th Amendment in Georgia
In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. One state where significant conservative Democratic opposition to the Amendment granting Black…
David Blight Writes in NY Times on the History of Voter Suppression
David Blight has an interesting article in the New York Times on how current efforts to suppress the vote echo those tried during the Reconstruction…
Indiana Dems Explain Their Principled Opposition to 15th Amendment: “the government was formed for white men” March 1869
At the end of February 1869 the 15th Amendment giving equal voting rights to Black men was passed by Congress and sent to the states…
March 1, 1869 Nevada First State to Ratify 15th Amendment Barring Racial Exclusion from Voting
On March 1, 1869 Nevada became the first state to ratify the 15th Amendment banning racial exclusions in voting. Gold Hill Daily News Tuesday, Mar…
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