Word: registeration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the third week of his drive to register Negro voters in Selma, Ala., and environs, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out to get himself and his followers arrested. He succeedd spectacularly, spending four days in jail himself and getting nearly 3,500 others booked by Alabama...
During the previous two weeks of his Selma drive. King had tried to steer clear of legal violations-particularly of breaking Selma's 1963 ordinance that bans "any parade or procession or public demonstration on the streets or other public ways of the city, unless a permit therefor has...
Martin Luther King's voter registration drive in Selma has dramatized once more the massive barriers which confront Southern Negroes who attempt to register and vote. At present, approximately 40 per cent of the Negroes in the South are able to vote, although in some states the figure is much...
The registrars would move into the area--a single country, or perhaps in the case of Mississippi an entire state--and register anyone who met certain designated qualifications. Because the Fifteenth Amendment gives the Federal government the power to protect voting rights in all elections, such registration would be valid...
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss.--Mayor Sam Cooperwood and Registrar Otis Clayton testified yesterday that there was no discrimination against Negroes who attempted to register to vote in Marshall County. "I told them [Negroes] they could go over and register to vote anytime ...They don't need any demonstrations about it," Cooperwood...