Sowing the wind : the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 / Dorothy Overstreet Pratt.

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

KFM7001 1890.A29 P73 2018

9781496815460 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1496815467 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781496815477 (epub single)
9781496815484 (epub institutional)
9781496815491 (pdf single)
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ix, 294 pages : portraits, map ; 24 cm

(OCoLC)989811379

"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. [This book] traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates' decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution. [The author] 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version: Pratt, Dorothy O., 1949- Sowing the wind. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] 9781496815477 (DLC) 2017027884

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