Word: districts
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Julian was elected from the 136th Legislative district, a predominantly Negro area in Atlanta. Although it touches on the campus of Atlanta University and includes some of the middle-class residential neighborhood surrounding the school, the bulk of the 136th is a slum, known locally as Vine City. Visiting door-to-door, checking in at all the churches, bars, restaurants, and grocery stores, Julian discussed with his constituents his campaign issues: a $2 minimum wage law, a "liberalized urban renewal program," repeal of "right-to-work" laws, abolition of the death penalty and removal of all voter requirements except...
...streets in front of their shacks and one-story apartment houses are unpaved, that the schools their children go to aren't very good, and that it's hard to get jobs. Julian and the SNCC workers who campaigned for him spent hours giving the voters in the district some idea of how they could improve their lives through the vote...
...June 16, 1965, Julian Bond was elected from the 136th Legislative district (representing a section of Atlanta) to the Georgia House. When the House met January 10, 1966, it voted 184 to 12 to bar Bond from his seat in the legislature. The House held him guilty of "disorderly conduct" because of what they referred to as his advocacy of violating the draft law and "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Since then the action of the Georgia legislators has been defended by Georgia Governor Carl Sanders and vehemently protested by many, including members of SNCC...
...there is already strong opposition to the code within the institute, led by Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Bazelon argues that the proposed code does not go nearly far enough...
Johnson announced the proposal, which would require a Constitutional amendment, in his State of the Union message Wednesday night. He said that "the nation, the principle of democracy, and each Congressional district will be better served by a four-year term...