"An Open Letter Addressed by Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala. to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, February 19th, 1898."

In the letter Washington urges the Louisiana legislature not to adopt measures that would unfairly disenfranchise African Americans while allowing similarly unqualified white men to vote: "The Negro does not object to an educational or property test, but let the law be so clear that no one clo...

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