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From 72 to 564. Four years later, Jordan took up a task that was to put him in the national spotlight and reorder the politics of the South. As head of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, he directed a campaign that registered nearly 2,000,000 new black voters. He crisscrossed the South, setting up registration drives and urging black leaders to run for office. During his tenure at VEP, the number of black elected officials in the South increased from about 72 to 564. Jordan then moved to the United Negro College Fund; there...
...which most Britons attribute to his austere policies. The latest Gallup poll showed Heath's popularity to be at its lowest point since he took office one year ago; only 31% of those questioned approved of his performance. In addition, the Tories trail Labor by 18 points in voter preference, a reading that has been substantiated in Labor victories in recent by-elections for Commons seats. There are presently 800,000 unemployed British workers, the highest number in 30 years, and only last week Scotland's famed Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, who constructed the luxurious Queens, went into bankruptcy...
...Frederick G. Dutton, who served as political aide both to John and Robert Kennedy, has proposed a different theory. In Changing Sources of Power-American Politics in the 1970s (McGraw-Hill), Dutton foresees the millions of new young voters bringing about large changes in American politics. In 1972, 25 million young people will become eligible to vote in national elections for the first time. "Voter turnout," writes Dutton, "increases with education, affluence, political awareness and social influence, and those attributes are all demonstrably higher in the coming generation than in any other new voting group in history...
Mississippi blacks, on the other hand, had no trouble finding an explanation for the murder. A voter-registration drive aided by young whites from the North had recently started, and local resentments were aroused. Said state N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "Apparently they were out to kill a black, any black." In the wake of the killing, angry crowds of Negroes roamed the town, occasionally hurling stones at windows and passing cars. Heavily armed, nervous police patrolled the streets and imposed a one-night curfew...
Perhaps the most dramatic example of the fusion of law, economics and the awakening political power of blacks currently shaping the South can be found in the renaissance of Hancock County. Five years after a voter-registration drive began reclaiming the blacks' franchise, Hancock County's courthouse is run by a predominantly black school board, county commission and judge of the ordinary. But holding political control over a dying, poverty-ridden county is an empty victory, so Hancock's blacks are trying to create a new standard of living to make power worthwhile. In a tiny hamlet called Mayfield...