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Negroes Lose at Jacksonville Polls, June 22, 1921

Negroes Lose at Jacksonville Polls

Jacksonville, June 22—Early returns from Monday’s municipal election indicate the efforts of negroes to gain a hand in the city government have failed.

Two negroes were candidates for councilman-at-large and four sought election to the council in their respective wards. The negroes made a strong showing in two wards, the returns indicated, but had not mustered enough votes to offset the heavy white vote.

Ordinarily the election would have been a more or less formality as Democratic candidates usually have no opposition. In response to an admonition by the Democratic committee, however, that the presence of negroes in the city government would be a “menace,” the white voters turned out in large numbers. The women polled an unusually heavy vote, according to early indications.

The election was without disorder. Two hundred special deputies were on duty as a precaution.

From The Charlotte News, Wednesday, June 22, 1921

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