 In September 1895 after a "pow-wow" of the Negro Republican Party, the "Picayune" claimed that whites would be willing to accept subordinate positions in the party to control the Negro vote.In his 1920 book "Children of the Slaves", the British author Stephen Graham mentions that in New Orleans the Negro Republican Party could not count for much in votes.African American males were allowed to vote in Alabama until 1901, when the state disenfranchised them although still letting them register.