- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
-
PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education -
PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership -
11 The Virtue of Agitation -
12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges -
13 Afro-American League Convention Speech -
14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards? -
15 Mob Law in the South -
16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation -
17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization -
18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize -
19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life -
20 The Quick and the Dead -
21 A Man Without A Country -
22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements -
PART 3 Race and the Color Line -
PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation
Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation
- Chapter:
- (p.165) 16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the essay “Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation,” written for the Independent, where Fortune outlines the argument against the southern states' disfranchisement legislation. Beginning in 1890 with Mississippi, the southern governments began rewriting their constitutions and effectively disfranchising their African American population. In 1898, the same year Fortune wrote this essay, the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi's suffrage amendment in Williams v. Mississippi, and Louisiana passed its own franchise legislation, instituting what became known as the “grandfather clause.”
Keywords: southern states, disfranchisement legislation, African Americans, constitutions, suffrage, grandfather clause, Independent
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
-
PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education -
PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership -
11 The Virtue of Agitation -
12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges -
13 Afro-American League Convention Speech -
14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards? -
15 Mob Law in the South -
16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation -
17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization -
18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize -
19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life -
20 The Quick and the Dead -
21 A Man Without A Country -
22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements -
PART 3 Race and the Color Line -
PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South