Builders of American Institutions: Readings in United States HistoryFrank Freidel, Norman Pollack Rand McNally, 1966 - 583 pages |
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... Negro . But they opposed it for economic rather than racial reasons . This fact is crucially important in under- standing their reactions . To use modern terms , they feared that the grant of the ballot to the Negro would add to the ...
... Negro . But they opposed it for economic rather than racial reasons . This fact is crucially important in under- standing their reactions . To use modern terms , they feared that the grant of the ballot to the Negro would add to the ...
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... Negro suffrage because it did not believe that common men of any color should vote ; manhood suffrage was " the unlimited suffrage of the ignorant , landless and lawless . ' . " 26 " We look upon it [ voting ] as a duty rather than a ...
... Negro suffrage because it did not believe that common men of any color should vote ; manhood suffrage was " the unlimited suffrage of the ignorant , landless and lawless . ' . " 26 " We look upon it [ voting ] as a duty rather than a ...
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... Negro politicians , secure in their place in the Republican party , advised their followers to shun co - operation and because those Negro leaders who favored co - operation could not sup- press their suspicion of the sincerity of the ...
... Negro politicians , secure in their place in the Republican party , advised their followers to shun co - operation and because those Negro leaders who favored co - operation could not sup- press their suspicion of the sincerity of the ...
Contents
EDWARDS WHITEFIELD AND THE GREAT AWAKENING | 28 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 77 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Political Conse | 109 |
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