Political Participation: A Study of the Participation by Negroes in the Electoral and Political Processes in 10 Southern States Since Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 256 pagini |
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15th amendment 1966 general election Alabama areas assistance Attorney Baker County ballots Bullock County chairman Choctaw County Claiborne County Code Commission on Civil complaint convention county board County Democratic Executive county election Dallas County delegates Democratic Executive Committee Democratic Party denied Department of Justice Doar electoral enforce Federal district court Federal examiners Federal observers filed Freedom Democratic Party Georgia Holmes County House of Representatives intimidation Louisiana Lowndes County Negro candidates Negro election officials Negro participation Negro poll watchers Negro registration Nonwhite White Nonwhite November Number Percentage Parish party affairs party officials party rules percent plaintiffs political subdivision polling place Pre-Act registration precinct meetings primary election qualified registered Negroes reported reportedly right to vote run-off Section South Carolina Southern statute Supp supra note tion U.S. Commission voter registration voting age population Voting Rights Act White Nonwhite White white persons Williamsburg County
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Pagina 120 - States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where such action is pending.
Pagina 207 - ... at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the permission of the trial court being first had upon proper application and cause shown.
Pagina 200 - ... voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting...
Pagina 205 - ... (b) Whoever, within a year following an election in a political subdivision in which an examiner has been appointed (1) destroys, defaces, mutilates, or otherwise alters the marking of a paper ballot which has been cast in such election, or (2) alters any official record of voting in such election tabulated from a voting machine or otherwise, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Pagina 250 - Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Greene, Greensville, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Henry, Highland, Isle of Wight, James City...
Pagina 199 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Pagina 205 - ... the Attorney General may institute for the United States, or in the name of the United States, a civil action or other proper proceeding for preventive relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order.
Pagina 199 - No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.
Pagina 198 - VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 PUBLIC LAW 89-110, 89TH CONGRESS, S. 1564, AUGUST 6, 1965 AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Voting Rights Act of 1965".