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Sowing the Wind - The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 (Hardcover)
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Sowing the Wind - The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 (Hardcover)
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In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its
constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked
the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth
and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary
purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American
voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that
transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind,
Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that
convention, examines the delegates' decisions,and analyzes the
impact of their new constitution. Pratt argues the constitution
produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture
from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state
leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their
manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled
the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of
many other southern states, it held up against attack for over
seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically
well into the twentieth century.
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