ELECTION DAY: While the confederate States are forced, by the federal government, to allow the suffrage of freedmen (former slaves), the Electorate of Michigan rejects ratification of their proposed State Constitution of 1867, which would extend suffrage to Citizens of African heritage.
[restored 5/1/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Michigan Constitution of 1850, Article 20, Section 2
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/historical/miconstitution1850.htm
References:
Willis Frederick Dunbar, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1980), 446.
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