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The extreme gravity of the situation as it affected the Negro lay in the political solidity of that section with its one-party governments in which he was denied a voice.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “The extreme gravity of the situation as it affected the Negro lay in the political solidity of that section with its…”
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Grimké highlights the political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South due to one-party rule.
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