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...Divisible. But Mrs. Bethune has a faith in political action that Booker T. would never have tolerated. Says she: "Without the Negroes' exercise of the franchise, neither the white nor the black can be free." Eloquent Mary Bethune has been stumping the country for years against the poll tax, for the anti-lynching bill and the FEPC. Sometimes her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt shares the platform...
...Carmichael as their next governor, to replace Ellis Arnall who by law could not succeed himself. One hundred thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor...
...Results of a Gallup poll announced last week: only 14 out of every 100 Americans had ever written to their congressional representatives; only nine of the 14 did it on their own hook...
With appropriate irony, the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center picked July 4 to publish a disturbing set of poll results. Items: one out of three U.S. citizens opposes freedom of speech in theory; in a practical test, less than a majority upheld the principle...
...present the College food saving program consists of eliminating desserts at the noon meal, breads at night, cookies and cake with ice cream, and the cutting out of all wheat cereals. These measures were approved by more than two-thirds of the College students in a poll held...