Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALABAMA: Registration is permanent and must be done in person before the county board of registrars in the county of residence. Previously registered voters must pay an annual poll tax of $1.50. Applications for an absentee ballot should be made to the probate judge in the county of residence prior to 5 days before the election. All ballots are to be returned to the Probate Judge 5 days before the election...
Residents of the following 20 states must register in person before their local board to be permitted the absentee ballot: Alabama, Connecticut, Deleware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming...
...States' Righters crowed; Louisiana was the fourth state in which the regular Democratic organization had walked out on Harry Truman. The others: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina. There was no longer any question that the Dixiecrats were capable of cutting deeply into Candidate Truman's electoral vote in the once-solid South. The rebels already counted 45 of Dixie's 148 electoral votes in their bag. After "Hummon" Talmadge's victory last week (see Georgia), they were also expecting Georgia...
Cried Wallace: "There is a long chain that links unknown young hoodlums in North Carolina or Alabama with men in finely tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away South." Wallace added: "If the U.S. does not get right on the segregation problem, she will lose her position of leadership in world affairs...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...