African American men vote publically by placing
African American men vote publically by placing their ballot in the glass jar of their chosen candidate, 1867. Here they are voting to ratify a new state constitution, drafted during the Congressional Reconstruction, that protected Freedmans civil rights, while disenfranchising most former Confederates. Hovering in the background are white men, some of whom threaten to discharge employees who vote for the radical Yankee constitution
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13124831
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45381290
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3000px x 1752px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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