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- Description is exactly "An April 16, 1926 Florence Herald list of qualified voters of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
By 1930 the total black population of Lauderdale county was 7, 782 with a total white population of 33, 222. There were 2,751 blacks and 8,900 whites living in Florence. In April of 1926 there were 71 registered black voters in Lauderdale County--54 men and 17 women. 48 of the men were from Florence Beat No. 10 while 6--1 each--were from the Center Star, Cloverdale, Oakland, Rogersville, Smithsonia and St. Florian Beats. Of the women, 17 were from Florence Beat No. 10 and there were no registered black female voters from the county.
Until FDR's New Deal courted their votes away in the 1930s most blacks voted Republican, as it was the party of Lincoln and emancipation. In Lauderdale County perhaps 85-90 % of registered black voters voted Republican with 10-15% voting Democrat.""
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