Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those were deceptively sweet days for the Organization. A constitutional amendment, banning the use of the poll tax in federal elections, had been passed by Congress and was moving toward ratification by the states...
...summer of 1964, the abolition of the poll tax for federal elections merged with another singular event, the Republican nomination of Barry Goldwaver for President. It proved to be an explosive mixture in Virginia...
...state had passed the poll tax at a constitutional convention in 1902 for the stated purpose of disfranchising Negroes. The new law required the $150 a year to be paid six months before an election. If a prospective voter had never paid poll taxes, he must pay them for the preceding three years. With penalties for non-payment attached, the price of a vote...
...nomination of Goldwater gave Virginia Negroes a target and the abolition of the poll tax gave them a chance to shoot. Negro registration doubled, reaching an estimated 200,000 by November, and Negro votes carried Virginia for Lyndon Johnson. More than 100,000 Negroes voted--about 95 per cent of them for Johnson--and the President won the state by 74,600 votes...
...should hold the referendum? The Administration, afraid perhaps of being implicitly bound by the outcome, has refused to sponsor the poll, though it does not object to the vote's taking place. The political organizations, such as SDS, are understandably reluctant to organize the referendum, fearing students will construe the whole thing as a propaganda stunt. This leaves the Harvard Undergraduate Council, which is politically neutral, independent of official Harvard, and experienced in matters of this sort. The HUC should move immediately to execute the mandate of this week's petition...