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1849 Assembly Bill 122
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Section 2 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. Section 1 details the referendum vote. Section 2 is the law for equal suffrage for African-American men.
March 1849
Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly
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1849 Assembly Bill 122
March 1849
Exterior of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 122 of 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. The bill also established the procedure fo...
1849 Assembly Bill 122
March 1849
Section 1 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. The bill also established the procedure f...
Black Suffrage Referendum Map
1900
Hand-drawn and colored maps of Wisconsin showing how each county voted in the gubernatorial race of 1865, and on a referendum regarding suffrage for African-Americans on the same ballot.
Tally Sheet for the Assembly Vote (or) Vote Record of Suffrage Bill
April 26, 1911
Tally sheet for the Assembly vote on David James's suffrage referendum bill. Photograph of the voting record of the Wisconsin Assembly on the measure to provide for the extension of the suffrage t...
Petition for legalizing suffrage for African Americans
1865
The title originally written on the back of this document is inaccurate; the content relates not to temperance but to suffrage. Petitioners request to legalize suffrage for persons of African desce...
