Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALABAMA: 53,336 Negroes registered out of 516,245 eligible; nine rural counties have no Negro registrants; even industrial and partly unionized Jefferson County (Birmingham) registered only 7,000 Negroes out of 121,510 eligible...
GEORGIA: 163,380 Negroes registered out of 633,390 eligible: five rural counties permitted only dribbles of Negroes to register; several more kept out Negro voters altogether, dragged down Atlanta's generally high Negro returns...
...Northern civil rights advocates believe. Through Texas, Arkansas and the Border States, Negroes not only register and vote but make such an impact at local-election levels that both parties bid for their support. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida, urban Negroes generally register and vote, while rural Negroes do not. The greatest concentration of civil rights violations at the polls lies in four states of the Deep South, and the statistics readily prove the point...
Most of today's barriers begin in harmless-looking state laws, not unlike many Northern state laws, which require would-be voters to pass tests in literacy and constitutional understanding. In the Deep South and in many other Southern rural areas, the decisions on passing or flunking rest in the hands of white registrars (in Alabama, three-man county boards) who use the power of office in devious ways to prevent qualified Negroes (and sometimes qualified poor whites) from registering. In Allendale County, S.C. in 1956, when Negroes tried to register they were told that the registration books were...
Teratology. Descriptive teratology (study of monsters) is almost as old as man. Mythology, folklore and history are full of tales of monsters, from the Cyclops and Harpies of classical times to that rural favorite, the two-headed calf. But experimental teratology (monster-making) is only about 50 years...