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Black residents of Topeka submitted a resolution to Governor Samuel J. Crawford concerning impartial suffrage. The resolution expresses the residents' gratitude to the legislature and the governor for their support of an amendment to the state constitution on impartial suffrage. Propositions put before the voters proposing to strike the words "white" and "male" from the state constitution were ultimately defeated. The proposed amendments followed Governor Crawford's submission of the proposed Article XIV of the United States Constitution to the Kansas Legislature for ratification. The Fourteenth Amendment defined U.S. citizenship and compelled Confederate states to adopt impartial (male) suffrage.
Creator: Colored People of Topeka (Kan.)
Date: February 25, 1867
Item Number: 208122
Call Number: Governor's Records, Crawford, Box 3 Folder 8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208122
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Crawford, S. J. (Samuel Johnson)
Date - 1861-1869 - 1867
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Blacks
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Crawford, S. J. (Samuel Johnson)
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Resolution
People - African Americans
People - Notable Kansans - Crawford, S. J. (Samuel Johnson), 1835-1913
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
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