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Charles Langston, Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote this letter to Samuel Wood, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, in response to a letter Wood had written him on April 4, 1867, concerning a suffrage convention in Topeka. Langston was unable to attend and felt misrepresented. Wood claimed Langston thought supporters of female suffrage opposed Negro suffrage, which was not the case. Langston went on to explain that he needed Wood's financial help to secure black male voting rights. Enclosed at the end of the letter is a petition from the State Executive Committee of Colored Men. This proposition asked for two things; a vote in the fall election to remove the word white from the state constitution and funds to further the black male suffrage cause. The vote to remove the word white did not pass in the fall of 1867. Black men had to wait three more years before they received their right to vote in Kansas elections. Charles Langston later served as the principal of the Normal School--Colored in Quindaro, Kansas.
Creator: Langston, Charles
Date: April 7, 1867
Item Number: 214689
Call Number: Women's Suffrage Coll. #656, Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214689
Collections - Manuscript - Wood, Samuel N.
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Blacks
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Women
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans
People - African Americans - Discrimination
People - Notable Kansans - Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
Places - Cities and towns - Cottonwood Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Chase
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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