NEGRO FRANCHISE
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE TIME LESSENING THE EFFECT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Saturday Commenting on the negro franchise in the southern States of America, Dr. W. Horton, professor of dogmatic theology at tho Graduate School of Theology, Ohio, said that after the civil war a move was made to give them the vote by an addition to the constitution. The move was almost completely nullified by tho introduction of what became known as the grandfather clauso, liowcver. j.liis stipulated that no negro whose grandfather was unable to read or write 'would be allowed to vote. As a result the main body of negros had been disfranchised. With the coming, of better educational facilities for negros brought about mainly through the influence of the Congregational Church, this state of affairs was gradually being recti-, fied. The white population of the states was still prejudiced against negros.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23104, 1 August 1938, Page 5
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