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  • Description is exactly "2. The Local Election.

    The Florence Times notes that in Cave Springs and Gravelly Springs (in rural west Lauderdale County) several African-Americans voted the Democratic ticket, with no black Republican votes at Cave Springs and only eight at Gravelly Springs."

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A series of Friday, November 7, 1890, Saturday, November 8, 1890 Florence Times and Florence Herald articles reporting on African-American voters of Florence-Lauderdale in the November, 1890 election which saw Democrat Joe Wheeler defeat Republican…
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