Assembly Defeats the African American Voter Rights Amendment
Title
Assembly Defeats the African American Voter Rights Amendment
Description
Connecticut's House and Senate reject the state constitution amendment giving voting rights to African American men.
Source
Matthew Warshaurer, Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012), 176.
Date
1865
Contributor
hall_tyler
Collection
Citation
“Assembly Defeats the African American Voter Rights Amendment,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/762.