Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jose to rear her child and write a book. Former S.D.S. President Carl Oglesby writing songs on a Vermont farm and lecturing at M.I.T. John Lewis, S.N.C.C. co-founder who once promised to sweep the civil rights movement "through the South the way Sherman did," is directing voter education in the South. Mario Savio is established in Berkeley, the city he shook in 1964 and now wants to lead as mayor...
...Voting Rights Act. With only 452 of its 5,000 eligible blacks then registered to vote. Greene County provided an excellent laboratory for the bill. The Southern Regional Council, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference descended on the county. Within a year, the massive voter registration drive had brought the first black politicians into an election since Reconstruction: Thomas Gilmore ran for sheriff and was defeated, but the first black school board member was elected...
...CONFLICT almost as old as democratic government itself is raging anew in Washington these days. The issue is the accessibility of information about Government operations. This conflict often pits the President and the Executive Branch against Congress, regulatory agencies against consumer interests, bureaucrats against environmentalists, Congress against the voter, the courts against the bar and, at times, the news media against all of them. At its highest levels, the pitch of the argument is tuned by public disquietude over the war in Southeast Asia, and by public concern lest new foreign undertakings, veiled in secrecy, lead to new military commitments...
...Voter registration is no longer the basic problem. There are now other dynamics in the election process which prevent the county's great black majority from voting for its own benefit First, many of the "respected" black leaders in the county are Uncle Toms. They are probably allowed to hold their positions exactly because they oppress and misdirect their own people. Second, many black people still vote the way their land-owner tells them to vote. Third, Wilcox County is a dry county with a thriving moonshine business. Incumbent white officeholders need only to threaten to bust the moonshine business...
...student of international business, I would like to compliment you on your article on the foreign trade bill [Nov. 23]. This bill is a true outrage not only to the principles and benefits of free trade but also to the U.S. consumer and citizen-voter. The bill is a blatant appeal to certain interest groups at the expense of the inflation-burdened Silent Majority...