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  • Description is exactly "An April 8, 1920 Florence Herald list of qualified voters of Lauderdale County, Alabama. "(Col.)" means "colored" and denotes a black voter.

    In 1920 there were 7, 669 white males 21 years of age or older in Lauderdale County and 2, 307 black males 21 years and older; of these black males of voting age approximately 50 were registered voters, all of them from the Florence Beat.

    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 pherhaps 85-90 % of registered black voters voted Republican with 10-15% voting Democrat."
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