In this broadside, Democratic leaders reassure white men in Virginia that proposed amendments to the state constitution will not strip them of their voting rights.
The Constitutional Convention of — produced the Constitution of and is an important example of post-Reconstruction efforts to restore white supremacy in the American South by disfranchising large numbers of blacks. The convention was dominated by Democrats, including state party chairman, J. Taylor Ellyson; the convention's president, John Goode; and the party's gubernatorial candidate, Andrew J. Montague, all of whom are quoted here. Goode emphasized that the party "is pledged in its platform to eliminate the ignorant and worthless negro as a factor from the politics of this State without taking the right of suffrage from a single white man.
Individual portraits of the delegates elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of —, the administrative staff for the convention, and members of the press covering the proceedings are arrayed around a photograph of the State Capitol in Richmond.
A broadside produced by the Negro Educational and Industrial Association of Virginia urges citizens to attend a meeting at Richmond's Mount Zion Baptist Church on May 3, , to discuss "the saving of our public schools and other matters of grave importance to be brought before the Constitutional Convention" of — The constitution that emerged from the convention effectively disfranchised most black voters and reaffirmed segregated public schooling.
For decades after, there was an increasingly wide gap between expenditures for white and black schools in Virginia. This is the leather cover of a volume of photographs featuring the delegates to and officials of Virginia's Constitutional Convention of — The book features portraits made by Foster's Photographic Gallery in Richmond.
The name of Hill Carter, who represented Hanover County at the convention, is embossed on the bottom half of the cover; this book likely belonged to him.
Virginia State Board of Elections in removed most of the barriers. Encyclopedia Virginia Grady Ave. Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation , the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia. Skip to content. Contributor: Brent Tarter. Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment contains two short sections. Ratification Electioneering at the South. A Reconstruction—era poll book from Virginia lists the names of the African Americans from the Third Congressional District, in Southampton County, who cast their votes in the October 22, , election "for and against a [constitutional] Convention and for a delegate to the same.
President Ulysses S. Application Many white Virginians disapproved of black men voting. March 2, The U. Congress requires that the legislature of each state in the former Confederacy ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before its senators and elected representatives can be seated in Congress. In the ensuing decades, various discriminatory practices including poll taxes and literacy tests—along with Jim Crow laws, intimidation and outright violence—were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
Johnson on August 6, , aimed to overcome all legal barriers at the state and local levels that denied African Americans their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote and authorized the U.
In , the 24th Amendment made poll taxes illegal in federal elections; poll taxes in state elections were banned in by the U. Supreme Court. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act, state and local enforcement of the law was weak and it often was ignored outright, mainly in the South and in areas where the proportion of Black citizens in the population was high and their vote threatened the political status quo. Still, the Voting Rights Act of gave African American voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and vastly improved voter turnout.
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Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans.
It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. Search this Guide Search. This guide provides access to digital collections at the Library of Congress, external websites, and print materials related to the amendment.
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