They were there against the civil right worker's murders. While the black population at the time was allowed to vote, in the Southern states they were withheld from voting by all sorts of idiotic reasons.
Ancient Ghana's kings were totalitarian. Via their mother's side of the family, they inherited rule-matrilineal rather than patrilineal as at the time with kings in Europe-and they claimed descent from an initial ancestor whom they felt had first settled the territory.
Rhode island was not present and there were 55 delegates
