Word: macon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fidelia Joann Adams, 21, postgraduate student in organic chemistry at Macon County's famed Tuskegee Institute, stood in a snail-paced Negro line while registrars processed applicants two at a time (whites meanwhile whizzed through twelve at a time), was eventually told to copy the second article of the Constitution, accomplished the job in one hour on 8½ longhand pages, was told to go home. She never heard from the registrars again, is barred from voting...
...Lowndes Macon Wilcox
Turning to white voting officials for an explanation, the commission, chaired by Michigan State University President John A. Hannah, got meager cooperation. Of 14 officials subpoenaed for the hearing, six refused to appear. Others, like Macon County Probate Judge William Varner, 70, came, but were studiously circumloquacious. Varner did not know how many voters were on Macon County's rolls, had never seen a registration form. But he was certain there was no discrimination; white and Negro applicants filled out the same form. Snapped former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, Negro member of the commission: "How would...
...year-old, slow-starting federal Civil Rights Commission ran up against its first Southern-built stone wall last week in Macon County, Ala., where Negroes outnumber whites 6-1, but white voters outnumber Negro voters 2-1. Assigned to gather evidence on complaints that the county board of registrars discriminated against Negroes in registering voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson...
...investigators left quietly. But in Washington, the CRC met and unanimously voted to hold hearings in Montgomery next month on voting discrimination in various Alabama counties, not just Macon. Since CRC's six members include a Virginian, a Texan and a Floridian, the unanimity was striking. Between the lines of its announcement, CRC hinted that it might, if necessary, use its statutory subpoena power to make balky registrars open up their files...