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- Title
CONGRESS AND LITERACY TESTS: A COMMENT ON CONSTITUTIONAL POWER AND LEGISLATIVE ABNEGATION.
- Authors
MAGGS, DOUGLAS B.; WALLACE, LAWRENCE G.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the Report on Voting submitted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to the Congress in 1961. It states that a governmental investigation conducted by the Commission on Civil Rights revealed that large number of African Americans were not allowed to vote in previous elections on racial grounds. It also mentions the principal bill, under which all people completing the sixth primary grade of any public or private school in any state, are eligible to vote in the country.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VOTING; AFRICAN Americans; LITERACY; CIVIL rights; RACISM; LEGISLATIVE bills; UNITED States education system; UNITED States. Congress
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1962, Vol 27, Issue 3, p510
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190593