Portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie With the encouragement of
abolitionist Sherman Booth, Ezekiel Gillespie attempted to vote
in Milwaukee in 1865 and was refused. The case went quickly to
the state Supreme Court to resolve the issue of African American
suffrage, and the court voted unanimously in favor of Gillespie.
Wisconsin in the Civil War Era| Abolition and Other Reforms |Pub
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