The Long Night continues: The voters of the confederate State of Louisiana ratify their constitution of 1898; article 197, section 5, of which contains the infamous “Grandfather Clause,” disqualifying residents from voting, whose ancestors were not eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 This disqualifies all freedmen and their descendants.
[restored 5/22/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Louisiana constitution of 1879, article 256, section 1
oll.libertyfund.org/title/thorpe-the-federal-and-state-constitutions-vol-iii-kentucky-massachusetts#lf1514-03_head_173
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 251.
State Constitution of Louisiana, 1898, Suffrage and Elections | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
glc.yale.edu/state-constitution-louisiana-1898-suffrage-and-elections
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