Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — To Bar Negroes for Life. [ARTICLE]

To Bar Negroes for Life.

The suffrage committee of the Virginia constitutional convention has agreed at Richmond upon a plan which will disfranchise nearlyl&ll the negroes in the state for all time and leave the white voters untouched. The scheme is to enact a law which shall be in force until Jan. 1, 1903, providing that a man must be able to understand the constitution in order to vote. Those who can understand it will be registered voters for life. In 1903 a property qualification will be added, which will act as a still further bar to negro suffrage. This plan, it is said, will most likely be adopted by the convention.