Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s
GPTKB entity
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:historical_event
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| gptkbp:affects |
African American suffrage
poor white voters |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s
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| gptkbp:influencedBy |
end of Reconstruction
rise of Jim Crow laws |
| gptkbp:legacy |
institutionalized racial segregation
long-term disenfranchisement |
| gptkbp:notableFor |
gptkb:Alabama
gptkb:Louisiana gptkb:Mississippi gptkb:South_Carolina gptkb:Virginia |
| gptkbp:occurredIn |
gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkb:United_States 1890s |
| gptkbp:purpose |
to disenfranchise African American voters
to rewrite state constitutions |
| gptkbp:resultedIn |
grandfather clauses
literacy tests new state constitutions poll taxes voter suppression laws |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Australian_Constitution
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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