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- Sep 2024
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Although criticized early in his career
Its interesting that he was heavily criticized for certain extreme policies and yet sill swept the governors race
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More than 25 percent of the state's revenue in 1910 was derived from leasing African-American convicts to private enterprises.
25% of the state being built on a hostage work force is wild. And this obviously clashes with the idea that these were "Self-made" men
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The disfranchisement of blacks by the 1901 constitution and suffrage amendment had reduced the Republican Party as an active force in the state. For more than 60 years, until federal civil rights legislation was passed to enforce the constitutional rights of African Americans in the mid-1960s, Alabama was essentially a one-party state, with elections won in the Democratic primaries.
This shows how these problems still persist into living memory. The disenfranchisement of Black and colored is still a problem to this day, and didn't simply end on a single day during the civil rights movement.
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Avondale Mills had declared $55,000 in profit and produced almost 8,000,000 yards of material. By the turn of the century, Avondale Mills had set the course for future development.
Its hard to defend the "Self Made Man" claim when all of his industries are built on the backs of other5 people who will never see the profit and he will never see their work
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