Word: virginias
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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...
Most of them eventually dropped the levy in favor of more effective literacy tests, and the 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...
...GOODHART '67 MARIANNE KEARNEY '67 SUSAN LEPLEY '67 VIRGINIA MUNSON '67 LINDA WYATT '68 LINDA CORBY '69 JEANNE ADAIR '69 Hood College Frederick...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965, enacted in August, which outlawed literacy tests and other registration practices used by Southern states to keep Negroes off the voting rolls. Joining South Carolina in attacking the law were five sister states also directly affected by the bill-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. To lend moral support to Katzenbach and the Federal Government, 20 other states were represented as amid curiae...
...whites. Freedom National's chairman is Jackie Robinson, a Negro folk hero who holds his position mostly for his name's sake. Operative boss is President William R. Hudgins, 56, who came to the new bank from a small savings and loan association. Hudgins was born in Virginia but has lived and worked in Harlem for 37 years, and can remember when "the Childs restaurant on 125th Street turned me away because I was a Negro. I still am, but Childs has changed and Harlem is changing...