Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Virginia tax is only $1.50 a year, residents who have not been voting must pay for three years-a total of $5.01 with penalties and interest. Attorney Robert L. Segar in a companion suit pointed out that the tax lay most heavily on Virginia Negroes, 54% of whom have family incomes below the Federal Government's $3,000 poverty line. "The tax represents a trap, not a test," he asserted. "A person who cannot afford three meals a day is going to think twice about paying for the right to vote." Negro Attorney Joseph Jordan noted that...
...24th Amendment to the Constitution (1964) barred it altogether in federal elections. Nonetheless, four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still tax voters in local and state elections.* Last week, in accordance with a congressional directive in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department interceded in a suit brought against the Virginia levy by four Negroes "of very limited means," formally asked the Supreme Court to outlaw "for once and for all" this "serious clog in the exercise of the vote...
...twelve leftist rebel leaders had flown off to their new "diplomatic" posts abroad, as ordered by President Hector Garcia-Godoy. And all last week Dominicans waited for the country's right-wing military leaders to follow suit. And waited. And waited. And waited...
...look with pink silk-jersey Turkish harem pants that left the legs exposed to the hips. Tiziani had his models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
...which Harlem is not changing fast enough to suit Hudgins and many other Negroes involves the lending policies of the white banks. Negroes complain that these banks are quick enough to make short-term, high-interest loans on such repossessable goods as TVs and automobiles, but are notably cool when it comes to real-estate and small-business loans that would help Harlem more. "The other institutions," says Hudgins, "are not carrying their share of the burden. They do not relate themselves to the com munity." Freedom National makes consumer loans in competition with the five big banks, but real...