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...tremendous expansion in Southern Negro education which gives the Senate bill its potency is "a great irony to the South," according to Pettigrew. The South began serious attempts to educate Negroes in the late forties when Supreme Court investigations of the "separate but equal" doctrine threatened the segregation of the school system...
Conditions in Negro schools were vastly improved, noted Pettigrew, only to be followed in 1954 by the desegregation decision. And the South's belated efforts "have only given birth to the sit-in generation, and allowed the bulk of the voting-age Negroes to come under the proposed literacy qualification...
...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...
Tracing the development of the Negro vote since the Depression, Pettigrew said the first significant rise in the vote occurred after the 1944 Supreme Court decision abolishing the white primary. As a result, Negro registered voting jumped from 1/4 million in 1940 to 3/4 million...
...Pettigrew attributed the increase of almost a million since 1946 largely to practicing Jess discrimination...