Legal and Intellectual Opposition to the 15th Amendment from Virginia Bar Association President 1904

Pat Young

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We know that the 15th Amendment giving non-white men the right to vote was ratified in 1870. We also know that various state laws and policies were introduced following Redemption of the former Confederate states that rolled-back the ability of blacks to vote. These intensified under Jim Crow.

While we may think of these efforts to keep blacks from voting as simply examples of naked white political power, there was an intellectual/ideological backing for them. A. Caperton Braxton was the President of the Virginia Bar Association at the start of the 20th Century. In 1904 he addressed the Association on the 15th Amendment. His address was widely reprinted and later issued as a short book in 1934. I will post some excepts from it that show the depths of intellectual opposition to the 15th Amendment from within the Bar of Virginia.

Here is a link to the full text of the address. I suggest you read it:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044031960305;view=1up;seq=5
 
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