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= The Development of Sentiment on Negro Suffrage to 1860, Issues 1-3 = By Emil Olbrich


 * South Carolina is the first state that was recorded as the first state that let blacks vote although was not illegal.
 * There was a loophole within the law that allowed blacks to vote.

Every freeman can vote then when 1830 came around the US constitutional convention came the law to Only white men could vote.

 * In Delaware in 1787 an act was passed that if you were a free slave you couldn’t vote, not be in a powerful position, or testify against a white person.
 * The United States did not want black people to vote but it was never made in law.
 * Before the Civil War they were Black governments however the civil war was  for freedom.
 * They said that it shouldn’t be right for all black complexion people to get their rights stripped from them.

=Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post emancipation Virginia= By Jane Elizabeth Dailey


 * The Re adjusters, a political party of African Americans,  felt that blacks should be held to certain standards such as being a part of the government, hold office,and serve on juries.
 * Black people left the area that the whites felt that they should hold power politically, economically, and socially.
 * White and black coal miners and farmers came together in Alabama as opposed to Mississippi and Georgia where is the black Republicans and Democrats came together to go against GOP & the local independents movement.
 * The success of Republicans and re-adjusters relied on the voting ballots of black males.
 * After the Civil War, in the southern plantation owners, wealthy elite, and others would do anything to intimidate black male voters. Whether it was standing in front of the voting polls with guns or additional voting requirements.
 * After the Civil War Politics was torn apart in the south they had people on both sides of the political spectrum who did not see eye to eye but they came together to incorporate the interracial political alliance.

= Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond ... = By Lewis A. Randolph, Gayle T. Tate


 * In the 1870s black Republicans shortly was replaced by white conservatives this helped with the white supremacist take over.

= Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in ... = By Faye E. Dudden


 * Black suffrage didn’t get any bolts in the democratic party as opposed to the Republic party where it was split.
 * Black suffrage was lost in 1860, The Republicans did not believe in the referendum so they ended up losing the election.
 * Abraham Lincoln did a lot to end black suffrage in America for example Lincoln made slavery illegal in Washington DC, this made many Southerners mad. Many people would say Lincoln is the reason why the Civil War happened.
 * In 1863, Frederick Douglass stood up for civil and political equality and later ended up meeting with the president at the time Abraham Lincoln. Douglass tried to get black freedom and rights approved.

The 3 phases of colored suffrage
Blacks started to demand equal suffrage in 1864, the legislator put a restriction on the Colorado voting laws and things of that nature.

Rich white leaders denied the chance for Blacks the governor at the time John Evans explained that black man did not vote before 1964 so why would the amendment mean otherwise.

September 5, 1865 the constitution in Colorado was approved but equal suffrage vote was rejected. This vote came largely from the blacks from the south and the Mexican Americans who also decided to settle in Colorado. The big cities where blacks were had the most votes like Denver in central city.

Blacks were denied land before the war and for a long time after the war.

In January 1986 three black men went to the governor with the pension which talked about enfranchisement and black kids going to public schools in Colorado.

During the mid-1850s when the politics was in huge rearrangement the republican party what is the major party in the role of American slavery.

The Republicans had prevented it a vote against the remission in Louisiana following the decision the state of Louisiana had rejected the black suffrage law.

With the reconstruction act in 1867 the 15th amendment in 1869 overruled all are Republicans to protect the voting rights as a national duty.

After the war all blacks participated in the economic order of government with voting.

From 1869 to 1901 African Americans where in every session in congress except for one. 2 African-Americans were in the United States senate and 14 in the house of reps.

In 1870 until 1891 the Republican Party ran the national government this was the reason why black suffrage was so huge and it seemed like the African Americans would never get their freedom to vote.

Black Reconstruction
In 1890 the Republicans control both the branches The legislative branch and the executive branch.

In 1893 and 1894 the Republicans came together to resist the democratic appeal for the enforcement acts.

It was big for historians trying to discover why the enforcement of black suffrage failed or even why did the republican party lose the 15th Amendment.

Throughout The 1860s and 1890s the Republicans maintained most of everything in the postwar.

Abraham Lincoln denied that he Approved black suffrage and that he Did not want to go into politics and social inequality between the races.

The parties was more polarized on black suffrage end it was major for these parties during that decade.

During 1863 Lincoln begin to understand that the war has started the plan for reconstruction

The union had no uniform with black suffrage or or anything that was black or white.

There was a plan of the US Constitution giving all male citizens who would be able to read and write and who owned property worth $250 would be able to vote.

Negro suffrage was a big part in became a law in the United States.