Word: voteless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded by the blacks as nothing more than one more ignominious step toward complete apartheid. When the mandate's administrator flatly refused even to receive a delegation from the location, the voteless blacks turned to the only weapon they had left-a boycott of the city-owned buses and beer halls...
...African National Congress, political arm of the voteless 9,000,000 blacks, called for a three-day protest strike during election week. Strijdom's Nationalists reacted by outlawing the congress in four native reserves, forbidding Africans to assemble in groups of more than ten in urban centers, sending squads of club-swinging police on raids in native shantytowns. They need not have bothered: few Africans seemed disposed to give up three days' pay for a bootless protest...
...something like their present majority (94 out of 159 seats) in South Africa's House of Assembly, even if, as last time, they do not get an actual majority of votes. But whoever won, it would make little real difference to the nation's 9,250,000 voteless Africans, who outnumber the whites three to one. For anyone who cherished the illusion that the Nationalists were unique in their commitment to white supremacy. Sir de Villiers Graaf, leader of the United Party, had made it perfectly clear: "The United Party does not stand for equality, never has stood...
...student interests. Even though the NSA does not maintain a Washington lobby, it does have considerable influence on national legislation. For example, in the past few years, the NSA has been instrumental in keeping appropriations for Fulbright scholarships at a high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment of the population, has repeatedly requested increased tax deduction for students, and the institution of a federal scholarship program. Equality of opportunity for students of all races in American universities has constituted another successful NSA campaign. Through membership on the American Council of Education and the National Education Association...
...moment, the country's 9,000,000 voteless, restless Negroes are lying quiet. Most hope that the United Party will win as the lesser of evils, but a smaller more militant group believes that a Malan victory will sting the blacks into closing their ranks completely. Said one of these: "Malan has advanced Negro unity by 50 years." Political experts think that Malan will probably win, helped by the emotion-charged cries of "Mau-Mauism...