Casting a Vote:

ID: 2915 ~ Source: Keatts, Rowena Weatherly. Interviewed by Rebecca Sharpless, May 5, 1986, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
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Prior to Reconstruction and the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, local, state, and federal governments barred Black men from voting. Rowena Keatts reflects on the significance of voting to her grandfather, who voted during Reconstruction, and her father.

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By Allie Roberts
At the end of the Civil War, a new nation seemed to be on the horizon. Emancipation and the beginning of Reconstruction signaled a shift in national, state, and local institutions across the country. The Reconstruction Era, though certainly flawed,…