People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Say They Are Disfranchised. [ARTICLE]

Say They Are Disfranchised.

Columbia,-S. C., July 10.—A largely attended convention representing the colored people of South Carolina is in progress here for the purpose of formulating a plan of action to be followed in the constitutional convention campaign which is now under way. The holding of the United States court of appeals, reversing the decision of Judge Goff in the registration case, is said to practically disfranchise the negroes of the state, and their leaders are advising emigration as the only escape from injustice and oppression.