Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yesterday protested to Elliott Perkins '23, Master of House, that the ban would prevent publication of a letter-writing campaign in the Houses . The Young Democratic Club of Harvard and Radcliffe and the Harvard Young Republicans Club planned the campaign in conjunction with the HRLU in support of the Mansfield bill...
Meanwhile, the HRLU, YDCHR, and HYRC are proceeding with their plans to campaign for the passage of the Mansfield-Dirksen civil rights bill, including door-to-door distributions and dining room tables...
Passage of the Mansfield-Dirkson Bill, Smith maintained, would remedy a situation in which he claimed Mississippi has "very seldom been electing men because of their competence." He also predicted that the Republican Party, which "has been nothing but a shadow" up to now, would develop into a major political contender...
...supporter of the Mansfield-Dirkson Bill, which would require the acceptance of six years of education as evidence of literacy for voter registration. Smith stated that the bill "goes a long way toward putting the ballot in the hands of the Negro...
...last week Kennedy had placed himself in the enviable position of being urged on all sides to make a move that he had quietly decided upon while others were still debating it. Said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "If the President had not made this decision, even though he made it with a heavy heart, he would have been derelict in his duty to the country and the free world...