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  • Description is exactly "Canvass the County.

    A letter to the Herald editor by a local merchant signing himself "BAR" (possibly Benjamin Armistead Rogers, Jr or Sr of Rogers Dept. Store a member of Lauderdale County's Campaign Central Committee ) of the Florence Times reprinted in the Florence Herald of Thursday, April 11, 1901, informing the editor of the Times that many local white voters were opposed to the proposed Alabama constitutional convention on the grounds that ignorant white voters might be disenfranchised and taxes raised, but supported the convention after it was explained to them that no white voter would be disenfranchised. The writer calls for qualified men to canvass the county and explain the situation to interested voters."

The State Campaign FH Thu Mar 28 1901 p 4.jpg
A Series of articles from the Florence Herald, Florence Times and Sheffield Reaper on the 1901 Alabama Constitutional Convention and African-American disenfranchisement.
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