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Sowing the Wind : The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sowing the Wind : The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 about?
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. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to ca
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dorothy Overstreet Pratt
- Publisher
- Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496815477
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Law
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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