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1 Civil Rights in Alabama: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Memorial of a Convention of Colored Citizens Assembled in the City of Montgomery, Ala., on December 2, 1874 1 (1874)

handle is hein.slavery/cvralamp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 43D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc. 2d Session. f { No. 46. CIVIL 1IGHTS IN ALABAMA. MESSAGE FROMI THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A memorial of a convention of colored citizens assembled in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on December 2, 1874. DECEMBER 22, 1874.-Referred to a select Committee on Alabama affairs and ordered to be printed. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives I have the hhnor to transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a memorial forwarded to me by a convention of colored citizens assem- bled in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on the 2d of this month. U. S. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 22, 1874. MEMORIAL. To His Excellency the President of the United States, and the honorable the Congress of the United States : The colored people of the State of Alabama, who by virtue of the three latest amendments to the Constitution of the United States became eman- cipated, and also became citizens of the United States, feeling anxiously and solemnly impressed by their past and present coudition in the State of Alabama, and by the grave and menacing dangers that now surround and threaten them and their constitutional rights, have as a race and as a people assembled together in convention to consider their situa- tion, and to take solemn counsel together as to what it becomes them to do for their self-preservation. We, therefore, for your better information upon the subject, do humbly present for your consideration and action the following memorial: That as a race, and as citizens, we never have enjoyed, except partially, imperfectly, and locally, our political and civil rights in this State. Oure Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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