Celebrating Mississippi's Bicentennial: 1868 Constitutional Convention
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Immediately after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi was required by Congress to rewrite its constitution. Congress invalidated the 1865 constitution which was produced due to the extreme restrictions placed on African Americans and Mississippi’s defiance of Universal Manhood Suffrage. Congressional reconstruction had begun by the time of the State’s next attempt at a governing document. The 1868 Constitutional Convention, known later by the insensitive name “The Black and Tan Convention” was the state’s first biracial election which included seventeen African American delegates.
Publication Date
3-15-2017
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video recording
Recommended Citation
Ford, Jennifer, "Celebrating Mississippi's Bicentennial: 1868 Constitutional Convention" (2017). University Videos. 76.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umvideo/76
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