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Glass was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1899.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History">[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/03/30/carter-glass-the-most-significant-american-senator-in-banking-history/ Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History]. ''Fascinating Politics''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> Deeply racist, he was mostly responsible for the disenfranchisement of blacks in [[Virginia]] during the 1901–02 state constitutional convention through the use of [[poll tax]]es and [[literacy test]]s after the Southern Democrats took power.<ref>[https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-is-it-time-to-reappraise-carter-glass/article_bd04976a-1ff8-5256-a1df-e9ea41871e58.html Editorial: Is it time to reappraise Carter Glass?]. ''The Roanoke Times''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> The same convention also instituted [[progressive]] "reforms" aimed at targeting [[corporation]]s.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>

Glass was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1899.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History">[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/03/30/carter-glass-the-most-significant-american-senator-in-banking-history/ Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History]. ''Fascinating Politics''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> Deeply racist, he was mostly responsible for the disenfranchisement of blacks in [[Virginia]] during the 1901–02 state constitutional convention through the use of [[poll tax]]es and [[literacy test]]s after the Southern Democrats took power.<ref>[https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-is-it-time-to-reappraise-carter-glass/article_bd04976a-1ff8-5256-a1df-e9ea41871e58.html Editorial: Is it time to reappraise Carter Glass?]. ''The Roanoke Times''. Retrieved April 22, 2021.</ref> The same convention also instituted [[progressive]] "reforms" aimed at targeting [[corporation]]s.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>

While Glass would sometimes show respect for individual blacks he knew, he viewed down on them as not being equal to whites.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>

While Glass would sometimes show respect for individual blacks he knew, he viewed down on them as not being equal to whites.<ref name="Carter Glass: The Most Significant Legislator in American Banking History"/>