On April 27, 1871, West Virginia voters approved the Flick Amendment, which restored voting rights to former Confederate supporters.
Learn more:
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Articles on the
Flick Amendment
Governor's Proclamation Announcing Statewide
Referendum on the Flick Amendment (Ar1725 #170, Legislative Material)
Senate Joint Resolution No. 6 (Flick Amendment)
(Ar1725 #170, Legislative Material)
Opinion of the Attorney General on the Rights of
African Americans To Vote as a Consequence of the Fifteenth Amendment (Ar1724 #37)
Document-Based Questions
April 27: Willow Island
