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"The first vote" / AW [monogram]; drawn by A.R. Waud.

Print shows African American men, in dress indicative of their professions, in a queue waiting their turn to vote.

The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia: Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867: Being a Full and Complete Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention, Together with The Reconstruction Acts of Congress and Those Supplement Thereto, The Order of the Commander of The First Military District Assembling The Convention, And The New Constitution. Volume I.

The debates of the Richmond Constitutional Convention from 1867 to 1868 during Virginia Reconstruction.

Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folks Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880.
Address of the loyal Virginians to their friends in the North
Freedmen’s Bureau Acts of 1865 and 1866
The tri-weekly standard., March 09, 1867

The North Carolina Tri-weekly Standard reported on the Alexandria Municipal election that approximately 1,000 Freedmen voted. Radical Republicans…

The Negro Riot at Alexandria. January 1, 1866.

The cause of the riot is unclear. Nevertheless, it had strategic effectiveness that allowed the Radical Republicans to argue against Southern…

The Debates and proceedings of the Constitutional convention of the state of Virginia,
assembled at the city of Richmond, tuesday, December 3, 1867: beign a full and complete report of the debates and proceedings of the convention, together with the reconstruction acts of Congress and those supplementary thereto, the order of the commander of the First military district assembling the convention, and the new constitution.
Official: W. H. Samuel, phonographic reporter

An account of the Virginia Constitutional Convention along with records of Virginia as the first military district.

The Late Convention of Colored Men; Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and To Congress.” The New York Times. August 13, 1865.

Freedmen in Alexandria, VA published an article in the New York Times advocating for suffrage.

The Freedmen's Convention from The New Era (Fredericksburg, Virginia). August 18, 1865.
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