@mailmansr.bsky.socialDelegates eventually adopted a literacy test and a poll tax geared to suppress the Black vote in a state with a Black majority.
The “Mississippi Plan” WAS the model throughout the South
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#VotingRights #15thAmendment #Mississippi #JimCrow #BlackHistory
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Biddy Mason, Winnie Owens, Southern vigilantes in 19th century Los Angeles, and a weak-kneed put-down that never stood up.
#BiddyMason #California #15thAmendment #WinnieOwens #Emancipation #VotingRights #WomensSuffrage
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Biddy Mason, Winnie Owens, Southern vigilantes in 19th century Los Angeles, and a weak-kneed put-down that never stood up.
#BiddyMason #California #15thAmendment #WinnieOwens #Emancipation #VotingRights #WomensSuffrage
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Biddy Mason, Winnie Owens, Southern vigilantes in 19th century Los Angeles, and a weak-kneed put-down that never stood up.
#BiddyMason #California #15thAmendment #WinnieOwens #Emancipation #VotingRights #WomensSuffrage
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Biddy Mason, Winnie Owens, Southern vigilantes in 19th century Los Angeles, and a weak-kneed put-down that never stood up.
#BiddyMason #California #15thAmendment #WinnieOwens #Emancipation #VotingRights #WomensSuffrage
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Biddy Mason, Winnie Owens, Southern vigilantes in 19th century Los Angeles, and a weak-kneed put-down that never stood up.
#BiddyMason #California #15thAmendment #WinnieOwens #Emancipation #VotingRights #WomensSuffrage