Tuesday, July 30, 1901. Limiting voting.

The last Imperial German Army troops left China following the Boxer Rebellion.

The Alabama constitutional convention began the first of its measures to disenfranchise African Americans from voting by limiting the right to register to vote to those persons whose ancestors were war veterans.

Given Southern conscription during the Civil War, that would have been a fairly large body of white Alabamans.  It's interesting to note, however, that if that provision existed today, which thankfully it cannot, Not one Trump could vote, and locally, none of Wyoming's Congressional delegation could.

 Mrs. E.N. Dickerson, of New York, N.Y. with a 363 lb. black sea bass, Santa Catalina Island, July 30, 1901

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Monday, July 29, 1901. Reds.

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