black people couldnt vote until 1870 so i dont know where youre getting lincoln (1860, 1864) and grant (1868) from, homieHow can Trump be getting historical Black voter poll numbers for a Republican candidate, when Black people used to actually be in the Republican Party and voted for candidates like Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt. Trump doesn't even get 8% of Black voters support, while guys like Grant got over 90%?
Do people know anything about American history? Do they not realize that the current idiots in the Republican Party used to be those fool ass Dixiecrats that voted against every single piece of Civil Right legislation that was ever proposed? I see now why Trump can just say dumb shyt and people don't realize that his fool ass is lying.
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no, lol. thomas mundy peterson was the first black man to vote in 1870. it took two acts of congress for black men to be able to vote.1870 is when it was codified and Southern Black people could vote. Black people in the North were voting before 1870.
African-American voting in North before 1860 may have been higher than previously understood
African-American voting in North before 1860 may have been higher than previously understood #ELB
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (UNC Press 2021) by Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College. At a conference this week with nonlegal academics, I was made aware of this new book. … Continue reading African-American voting in North before...
Nope. New Jersey allowed Black people to vote as early 1789.
i.... genuinely did not know that!Nope. New Jersey allowed Black people to vote as early 1789.
Did You Know: Women and African Americans Could Vote in NJ before the 15th and 19th Amendments?
to NJ! and you! repped
Y'all just be saying anything
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Black people were also voting in other Northern States like New York and Pennsylvania before 1870, but depending upon specific States their right were trimmed back or cut out all together at various points before 1870.i.... genuinely did not know that!
