- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- The Truth about the Negro Problem
- Date of Original:
- 1890/1930
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Tennessee
African Americans
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, 36.17069, -86.77753 - Medium:
- broadsides (notices)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This broadside, published by anti-suffrage forces in Nashville during the struggle for the ratification of the 19th Amendment, details racial reasons for their opposition to women`s suffrage. It claims that women`s suffrage must be defeated for the sake of Southern civilization, womanhood, and both the white and black races. It lauds the racial harmony of the South, and warns that giving women the right to vote will only spark political competition between the sexes and between the races. There is a detailed accounting of the population of southern states, broken down by race and sex, showing a white majority in all states except South Carolina and Mississippi. An enumerated list of facts purports that the 19th Amendment will create a Negro majority in South Carolina and Mississippi, where no such "real majority" exists now. The amendment will also create a Negro majority in over 200 counties in the South.
Women--Suffrage--Tennessee. -- Race discrimination. -- Women's Suffrage and Tennessee's pivotal role in passage of 19th Amendment . -- Taxation and the narrowing of the franchise: "Jim Crow" laws and the poll tax . -- Civil and Human Rights. -- Women. -- African-Americans. -- Hermitage Hotel.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A15631
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Digital Collection: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee: A Grassroots Approach to Volunteer Voices
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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