Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Introduced on January 20 into the upper house, the Mansfield-Dirksen bill would wipe out all state literacy tests, a major device now used by some Southern states to keep Negroes off the voting rolls...
...Mansfield-Dirksen bill would be far more effective than the two Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, Pettigrew said. While the two acts, which provided for federal injunctive action where voting discrimination is spotted, have not had spectacular results, "a rise of "a million and a half among Negro voters if this bill is passed would be no pipe dream...
Compaign backed by the HYRC, and the HRLU, urges to support the Mansfield-Dirk whirh would establish a sixth as sufficient proof of for federal elections, and a amendment abolishing the poll...
...campaign workers last J. Rothstein '63, chairman Civil Rights Co-ordinating said that the Mansfield-Dirksen not a road to Utopia." But that the bill, which sixth-grade education will be to satisfy state literacy federal elections, is an step toward full political equal- Negroes...
After today's leaflet distribution, the civil rights group plans to set up booths in the dining halls and the Union. Volunteers will hand out copies of the Mansfield-Dirksen bill and sample texts for letters and telegrams. For students who want to write on the spot, typewriters, paper, and postcards will be provided at the booths. Also, campaign workers will be equipped with maps of Congressional districts and lists of Congressmen for letter-writers who don't know the name of their Representative...