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Equal Rights speech sparks race and suffrage debate in Brooklyn
In a Brooklyn Equal Rights meeting a preacher cites Theodore Tilton urging universal suffrage and office eligibility, arguing for Black and white women's political rights. The piece mocks anti suffrage sentiment, notes black women's competence, and foresees a future with an African American mistress of the white house. It then shifts to a brief historical aside on looking back and a loosely related Law of Newspapers column about subscriptions and notices.
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