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  • Description is exactly "(10) Wilkinson Rives to Appear in Debate. A Friday, October 25, 1946 Florence Herald announcement noting that noted Alabama attorneys Richard T. Rives of Montgomery and Horace C. Wilkinson of Birmingham were scheduled to participate in a debate at the courthouse in Florence on Thursday night, October 31, sponsored by the Florence Junior Chamber of Commerce on the subject "Should the Boswell Amendment be Adopted?" Wilkinson would take the positive while Rives defended the negative.



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Alabama Politics Boswell Amendment FH Fri Jan 25 1946 p 2.jpg
A series of newspaper articles discussing the proposed Boswell Amendment to the Alabama Constitution of 1946.

Section 181 of the Alabama constitution allowed a citizen to register to vote if either they or their spouse owned at least $300 worth…
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