A Princeton alumnus and grandson of the president of the Louisiana Sugar Exchange, Edward James Gay III came to the U.S. Senate just as the Anthony Amendment was in need of one additional vote. He would oppose the amendment, but then offer a substitute allowing white women to vote while Jim Crow restrictions on Black people voting continued. Wilson privately approved the plan, hoping thereby to secure Gay’s vote.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1905
A Princeton alumnus and grandson of the president of the Louisiana Sugar Exchange, Edward James Gay III came to the U.S. Senate just as the Anthony Amendment was in need of one additional vote. He would oppose the amendment, but then offer a substitute allowing white women to vote while Jim Crow restrictions on Black people voting continued. Wilson privately approved the plan, hoping thereby to secure Gay’s vote.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1905