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Establishing White Supremacy: The Legal Structure of Disenfranchisement
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The constitutional convention met in Montgomery with an objective openly declared by its president, John B. Knox: to establish white supremacy within the limits allowed by federal law. The phrase was not rhetorical. It was structural. The men gathered there were not improvising. Reconstruction had ended decades earlier. Black men had voted. Some had held office. Political power had shifted once already. What the convention sought was permanence. They did not write, “Black men may not vote.” That would have violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Instead, they engineered filtration. Poll taxes imposed cumulative financial pressure. Literacy requirements required interpretation,
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