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ALABAMA: 53,336 Negroes registered out of 516,245 eligible; nine rural counties have no Negro registrants; even industrial and partly unionized Jefferson County (Birmingham) registered only 7,000 Negroes out of 121,510 eligible...
Beyond such subterfuges lie the opportunities of the literacy and constitutional tests themselves. In many Alabama counties in 1956, Negroes were told to give their age in years, months and days, were deprived of the right to vote if they were one day off; in Jefferson County, Ala. the Negroes were asked constitutional questions, such as on what date did the Tenth Amendment become effective, or on what date did Oklahoma become a state. Even in moderate North Carolina, a Negro woman in Northampton County was put to reading the state constitution and was disqualified when she "mispronounced several words...
...organization, but the man the Communists had to thank for their victory was none other than President Sukarno himself. Indonesia's national hero and the father of his country, Sukarno has never in his life stood for elective office. He was much impressed by the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Dwight Eisenhower on his U.S. visit last year, but as a grade-school kind of Marxist he found his visit to Red China a few months later much more instructive...
...would have struck the cowboy artist as a lot of tomfoolery. As to how Charlie would have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...
...Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of Patrick Henry in six weeks, drove Daniel Webster to "despair," and got from Thomas Jefferson the tribute of being the law's "universal elementary book...