Voting rights
Articles documenting disfranchisement, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and the fight for Black political power.
Voting rights (16 articles)
Articles documenting disfranchisement, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and the fight for Black political power.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 (Feb) | Ohio | Argues in The Crisis (1912) that Ohio women’s suffrage boosts Black political influence, linking democracy, race and labor to win freedom. |
| 1912 (Mar) | The Justice of Woman Suffrage | Terrell, Mary Church in The Crisis (1912) argues for woman suffrage as a racial and moral justice, condemning opposition even among Black men. |
| 1912 (May) | The Last Word in Politics | Urges Black voters to weigh race and democracy over party promises, endorsing a risky test of Wilson. |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | Condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. |
| 1913 (Mar) | An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | Urges Woodrow Wilson to defend Black civil rights—voting, education, labor access—and end lynching to save democracy. |
| 1914 (Feb) | Don’t Be Bitter | Rejects pleas to ‘’not be bitter,’’ arguing Black Americans’’ calm demands for voting rights, racial justice, and dignity. |
| 1914 (Feb) | Votes for Women | Argues Black support for women’’s suffrage strengthens democracy, challenges racial disfranchisement, and advances justice. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Senators’ Records | Exposes Senate suffrage debates invoking race, naming senators who backed disfranchisement and threatened democracy. |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Election | Criticizes parties for ignoring 500,000 Black voters, arguing race and democracy force political reckoning. |
| 1915 (Jan) | Agility | Condemns suffragist evasions that defend white supremacy and betray democracy and Black women’s rights. |
| 1915 (Mar) | The Grandfather Clause | Exposes the Grandfather Clause as a racist tool undermining Black democracy, education, and labor rights. |
| 1915 (Apr) | Woman Suffrage | Argues Black voters must support woman suffrage as a democratic, racial-justice duty that advances equality. |
| 1915 (May) | The Republicans | Exposes how Republican Party rules quietly disfranchised Southern Black delegates, undermining democracy and race justice. |
| 1915 (May) | Woman Suffrage | Rebukes anti-suffrage claims and affirms that women’s labor, equality, and democratic rights require the vote. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Booker T. Washington | Praises Booker T. Washington’s gains in Black education but faults him for aiding disfranchisement and color caste |
| 1916 (Feb) | An Open Letter to Robert Russa Moton | Urges Tuskegee leader Moton to defend Black voting rights, equal education, and oppose Jim Crow segregation. |
| 1917 (May) | Register and Vote | Urges Black registration and voting to break the white primary, defend democracy, and win schools and civic reforms. |
| 1917 (Jun) | Resolutions of the Washington Conference | Urges Black Americans to join the war effort and demands race justice: voting, education, end to lynching and Jim Crow. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Second Coming | Uses a prophetic allegory to expose white racial fear and envision Black emergence and social change. |
| 1918 (May) | Votes for Women | Urges Black voters to back woman suffrage as a moral and democratic defense against racial disfranchisement. |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Ballot | Demands the ballot for Black WWI veterans, arguing democracy and education must end race-based disenfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Mar) | Forward | Urges in The Crisis (1920) a renewed NAACP campaign against lynching, Jim Crow, and for the Black ballot and racial democracy. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Southern Representatives | Urges Republicans to cut Southern representation to punish Jim Crow disenfranchisement and defend Black voting. |
| 1920 (May) | Atlanta | Demands voting rights, an end to lynching and Jim Crow, and equal education, labor, and racial democracy. |
| 1920 (May) | Get Ready | Calls on Black Americans to prepare, defend voting rights, and legally resist Southern efforts to disfranchise Black women. |
| 1920 (Jul) | In Georgia | Declares the NAACP’’s Atlanta meeting an epoch: Black demands for vote, anti-lynching, education, labor and full democracy. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Reduced Representation in Congress | Urges reducing Southern congressional seats under the 14th Amendment to punish disfranchisement and defend democracy. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Of Problems | Criticizes racial double standards that deny Black social equality, voting rights and self‑defense. |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Liberal South | Challenges the liberal South and urges white leaders to secure Black rights: vote, end Jim‑Crow travel, education, lynching. |
| 1921 (Jun) | The Rising Truth | Exposes southern racial terror and white hypocrisy and insists education and the ballot are crucial for democracy. |
| 1921 (Dec) | President Harding and Social Equality | Condemns Harding’s attack on social equality, defends racial equality, education and democracy; warns against segregation. |
| 1922 (May) | Inter-Racial Comity | Urges interracial committees to act on race, the vote, Jim Crow, peonage and mob-law, warning against complacency. |
| 1925 (Mar) | Radicals and the Negro | Argues in The Crisis that radicals must include Black emancipation—voting, education, labor and anti-lynching—to defend American democracy. |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Firing Line | Argues the U.S., not Africa or the West Indies, is the racial firing line, urging democratic struggle and voting rights. |
| 1927 (Apr) | The Higher Friction | Argues racial friction moves up to higher stakes—voting, education, lynching, housing—measuring uneven Black progress. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Black and White Workers | Shows Black and white workers share a common struggle for democracy and labor rights, yet prejudice and bosses block solidarity. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Augustus G. Dill | Shows in The Crisis (1928) that democracy hinges on Black voters, warning that anti-vote campaigns undermine race, rights, and progress. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Smuts | Exposes Jan Smuts’ white-supremacist vision, arguing it denies Black education, labor, and democratic rights. |
| 1933 (Jun) | The Strategy of the Negro Voter | Urges Black voters to adopt opportunist tactics—protecting survival while pressing racial, labor and democratic reforms. |
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