There's little doubt about the political implications for blacks of at-large voting for council, instituted in 1918, right after the first batch of Southern blacks moved north.
At-large voting was one of those great progressive ideas [[get rid of the ward bosses) that had unintended consequences. Of course eugenics was also a great progressive idea.
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