It was plain to see that the trouble in the southern States arose out of the exclusion of the better whites from the electoral suffrage no less than from the admission of the most ignorant blacks.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 82
- work
- A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902)
- year
- 1902
- locator
- p. 82
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