Word: registrar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived on East Carroll's rich Delta cotton land all of his life-an amiable, chatty man who leads a church founded by his great-grandfather. But seven times in the past ten years, he has been unable to prove his identity. The county voting registrar requires vouches of identification from two registered voters. But all the registered voters were white, and Scott, like 61% of East Carroll's 14,443 residents, is a Negro. A friend once said hopefully, "I have some white friends, and we're all Christians." Scott answered: "Nobody's a Christian...
...miles of doorbell-ringing arguments against fear and apathy-but it is beginning to pay off. White and colored students working in Raleigh, N.C.-where an 8,000-vote Negro bloc has been the deciding factor in the last two municipal elections-cruised through Negro neighborhoods with a Negro registrar in their bus and station wagon, registered 1,300 new voters at the curbside in six weeks. In Terrell County, Ga., a federal injunction two years ago finally resulted in the registration of 51 of the county's 8,209 Negroes. Last week New York Times Correspondent Claude Sitton...
...methods of making sure that their luck will be tough are unchanging: economic and physical intimidation; registrars who are chronically unsatisfied with the way a Negro interprets the state constitution or completes a registration blank. A registrar in Forrest County, Miss., found five college graduates illiterate. In Plaquemines Parish, La., the Civil Rights Commission was told that finding the registrar was "like a game of hide and seek." In 13 Southern counties Negroes constitute a majority of the population-and not one vote. In 35 other counties, 3% or less of the qualified Negroes are registered...
According to figures released yesterday by the Registrar's office, science courses are far ahead of the rest of the field in popularity among students...
...There is not that much variation between the academic records of the undergraduate organizations," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, declared. He, like Owen and Bender, sees no definite factors which distinguish the athlete as a student from other "types" of undergraduates...