Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas, which impose no tests-but which harbor one-fourth of the South's unregistered Negroes. Civil rights leaders charge that "pockets of discrimination" in those states use subtler methods, such as job reprisals, to keep Negroes away from the ballot...
What have the conservatives to offer the Southern Negro? "Help, first of all, toward the ballot for people who are qualified to cast a ballot. Beyond that, the conservatives make no apology for making the same appeal to the Negro as they make to other Americans...
King called for more marches-on segregated schools, on poverty and "on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena." He lifted the crowd to a peak with a rhythmic, almost hypnotic chant: "I know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?' I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth pressed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long...
...municipal elections. Walking under a huge sign that read "Dobro Pozhalovat" (Welcome), Khrushchev waved off a voting official who signaled him to the head of the line. When he reached the table, a young woman poll watcher asked him for his identity papers before handing him his ballot. "Don't you trust me?" Khrushchev quipped. "Yes," said the girl with a blush, "of course we trust...
Whipped in the Field. When the Civil War broke out, Ben Butler was New England's most famous criminal lawyer, a raspy-voiced Democrat who had long crusaded for shorter working hours and the secret ballot. Lincoln needed all the Democratic trimmings he could get in the war, and since Butler was incidentally a brigadier of the state militia, Lincoln dispatched him to Maryland, which was threatening to secede. Butler seized Annapolis and then, in a lightning move by night, occupied mutinous Baltimore...