Sunday, December 11, 2005

This Day in Republican History 12/11/05

December 11, 1895 African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans He was a delegate in 1895 to the state constitutional convention that disenfranchised most blacks by approving election laws requiring, among other things, that voters read and write any part of the South Carolina constitution or prove that they owned at least $300 in property. Miller, Congressman Murray, and former Representative Robert Smalls spoke against these and other racist provisions, but their efforts were unsuccessful.

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