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Letter from Charles P. Carpenter in Florala, Alabama, to Governor Thomas Kilby in Montgomery, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the letter Carpenter suggests that an amendment should be added to the state constitution to create "character qualifycations" for the new women voters; he warns that "[l]ow character women are for sale and will be just as easy controlled by bad polititioners in elections as negroes were in their days of voting."
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600 Ppi Tiff
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1920 September 13 1920 09 13
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Carpenter, Charles P
  4. Government
  5. Kilby, Thomas Erby, 1865 1943
  6. Legislation
  7. Men's League For Woman's Suffrage (Ala.)
  8. Politics And Government
  9. Suffrage
  10. United States
  11. United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment
  12. Women

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