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Voting Rights in the Early 1960s: “Registering Who They Wanted To”
Today’s blog was written by Stacey Chandler, Textual Reference Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Part II: Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and other 1971(a) Barriers to the Black Vote In 1962, Deputy Attorney General Burke Marshall reported that “racial … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights Protest & Issues
Tagged A. Philip Randolph, Aaron E. Henry, Alabama, Burke Marshall, DOJ, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, John Lewis, literacy tests, Louisiana, Mississippi, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, poll tax, Stacey Chandler, Voting Rights
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“When It Was So Rough that You Couldn’t Make It”: Voting Rights in the Early 1960s
Today’s blog was written by Stacey Chandler, Textual Reference Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Part I: Mapping the Barriers A basic law protecting the right to vote “without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” has … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights Protest & Issues
Tagged Aaron E. Henry, Burke Marshall, Civil Rights Acts, DOJ, John Doar, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Julian Bond, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Stacey Chandler, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Voting Rights
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