Browse Items (1 total)

  • Description is exactly "(2) A Friday, July 26, 1946 Resolution by the Montgomery, AL Junior Chamber of Commerce opposing passage of the Boswell Amendment, "which amendment prescribes who shall be qualified to register as voters in the State of Alabama." The Amendment essentially gave registrars the power to arbitrarily register or reject potential electors since an applicant had to satisfy the electors that he/she could understand/explain any section of the US Constitution, "even though the highest court in the land [the US Supreme Court] often divides on Constitutional questions by a vote of five to four . . ."

    "

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…
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2