Word: michigan
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About half the 500 seniors graduating from Detroit's Cooley High last spring walked out of the ceremony clutching something besides their sheepskins-voter registration cards. That experience proved to be a dry run for a bill signed into law this month by Michigan Governor William G. Milliken to encourage a good portion of next year's 133,000 Michigan high school graduates to vote in the 1980 presidential election. The new law provides that high school principals or their deputies can issue registration cards on the spot and act as registrars to certify that a student meets...
...Michigan bill, similar to a Georgia law signed by Governor Jimmy Carter in 1971, was strongly supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We have to make it as easy as possible for these kids to register," says Joseph Madison, director of the N.A.A.C.P.'s voter program. The percentage of voter turnout in the U.S., especially among the young, is steadily declining. Madison points out that of the 3.4 million blacks age 18 to 24 in 1976, 38% registered and only 26% voted. Of the 23 million whites in that age group, 53% registered...
Compliance with the Michigan law is not compulsory, nor did the state legislature authorize any funds for the registration drive, so it is up to the schools to follow through. The voluntary Georgia program has not been particularly successful. Many high school principals, black and white, simply ignored it. Local branches of the Michigan N.A.A.C.P. plan to call on school superintendents to get them moving, and Jefferson will meet with Detroit high school principals to urge each of them to deputize a registrar to keep track of the students as they reach voting age. Madison envisions a voter registration rock...
...dream factory. Yet too many sentences creep along under the crustacean weight of adjectives: "The staggering impact of the immense success of these shows on the entire entertainment world . . ." Worse, Dardis too often strains after bogus significance: "Like Ernest Hemingway, who also spent childhood summers on a lake in Michigan, Buster early became an extremely proficient duck hunter." Such blemishes are too bad. Keaton never pretended that there was more to his work than met the eye, because he did not have to. Unfortunately, his biographer felt that pretensions were necessary, when the life and art alone would have been...
...nation's black leaders were stunned by the departure from the Administration of its most prominent black member. Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., called it a "forced resignation" that was "an insult to black people." To Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, what happened to Young was a "pointblank firing." Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged that Young had been made "a sacrificial lamb for circumstances beyond his control." Instead of being out of a job, said Hooks, Young "should have received a presidential medal" for pulling...