Sold by William Reese Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First printing of the only post-Reconstruction constitution of the state of South Carolina, which effectively dismantled all the civil rights gains found in the 1868 South Carolina state constitution and introduced the Jim Crow laws that governed the state until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. South Carolina's Reconstruction constitution of 1868, "which had been the most democratic constitution ever in South Carolina,.[was] drawn up at a constitutional convention which consisted of seventy-six African Americans and forty-eight Whites [and mandated] the creation and maintenance of a free public school system in which racial discrimination was not permitted.abolished property requirements for holding office, [and] enlarged the electorate by providing for universal male suffrage" (Moore). The present 1895 South Carolina constitution, however, disenfranchised African-American residents by restricting the vote to people who could "read and write any Section of the constitution.or [who could] show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on property in this State assessed at three hundred dollars ($300) or more [and] shall require of every elector.before allowing him to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed against him." The constitution goes on to deny interracial marriage: "The marriage of a white person with a Negro or mulatto, or person who shall have one-eighth or more Negro blood, shall be unlawful and void" and mandates racial segregation in South Carolina Schools: "Separate schools shall be provided for children of the white and colored races, and no child of either race shall ever be permitted to attend a school provided for the children of the other race." At present, nearly 130 years after its adoption and with some revisions, the South Carolina constitution of 1895 remains the body of fundamental laws by which the state government operates. Although Jim Crow laws were technically removed from the South Carolina state constitution by the mid-twentieth century, this has not always guaranteed full integration or adherence to antiracism laws in the state. This is the first time we have handled this exceptionally uncommon first printing of the current South Carolina state constitution. William V. Moore, "The South Carolina Constitution of 1895: An Introduction" in Journal of Political Science, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1996). Original printed wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers, worn along the spine, one-inch open tear to lower outer corner of front wrapper. Closed tear in the fore-edge margin of the first thirty-five pages, with no loss. Faint tanning. About very good overall.
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