Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630138030

There will be a literacy test up here some day on an immigration bill. and in voting on that we shall have an opportunity to apply to those coming from foreign countries the same high standard of Intelligence that we apply to negroes in Virginia and elsewhere. I wish to pursue the inquiry a little further and to ask if the condition so glowingly portrayed by the Senator from Virginia and also the Senator from Mississippi as to the great progress made by the negro in slavery days does not indicate that the thirteenth. fourteenth. and fifteenth amendments are a radical and gross governmental error?
Keywords matched
immigration literacy test

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LAWRENCE SHERMAN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630138030
Paragraph
#0
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