Word: voters
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...League have long selected specific communities to score victories that could become pacesetting precedents or affect the national mood. As localism becomes more the core of the struggle, they continue to perform the vital role of keeping local communities from backsliding on integration of schools and public facilities, expanding voter registration, breaking white barriers against blacks in industry, training blacks for better jobs. Such leaders as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins, the Urban League's Whitney Young and S.C.L.C.'s Rev. Ralph Abernathy may lack appeal to many younger blacks, but their organizations still carry
...happening on every level of being black. For all that's happened in this country, we are still American citizens. Salvation for the black kids will come through education and then beating the white man at his own thing." Laura works in Operation Breadbasket's voter registration campaign. Her heroes are Martin Luther King, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson...
Some of the deficiencies in the federal system have been corrected by the Federal Jury Selection Act of 1968, which reaffirms a national policy entitling defendants to juries that reflect the full range of community opinion. The law requires veniremen to be chosen primarily from voter registration lists-which seems reasonable enough, but tends to exclude many blacks, especially in the South. Nor does the federal act touch state laws...
...limitations of Dwight, Oughton sent Diana off to Madeira School in Greenway, Va., and Bryn Mawr. She spent her junior year at the University of Munich. It was at Bryn Mawr that Diana first showed an interest in social problems. Like many collegians, she was active in voter registration and tutored junior high school students. At night she would go by train to Philadelphia, where for two years she tutored two ghetto boys. Said Carol: "I remember how incredulous Diana was that a seventh-or eighth-grade child couldn't read, didn't even know the alphabet...
Review Right. Last summer the Administration proposed a new law which was passed by the House in December. It would spur voter registration in the North by suspending literacy tests nationwide and relaxing residency requirements for presidential elections. But by allowing the 1965 law to expire, the measure would also eliminate the Justice Department's right to review voting laws, forcing it back to the old case-by-case method of implementation and slowing black registration in the South...