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Allard K. Lowenstein, a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and Barney Frank '62, assistant senior tutor of Winthrop House, will lead an open meeting on "The Student and His Environment: From Berkeley to Selma" at 9 p.m. tonight in the Tonkens Room of Winthrop House...
Limited Franchise. The voting rights bill did not spring entirely from spur-of-the-moment shock at the outrages in Selma. Back in November, the President had ordered White House aides and Justice Department attorneys to begin designing a powerful and unprecedented measure to assure Negro voting rights. Well aware that it would be subjected to a quick and savage attack from the South on constitutional grounds, Johnson warned Katzenbach: "I want this bill completely legal." That was possible. But to make it completely tamperproof was another matter...
...applications and subpoena 185 witnesses; six lawyers worked a full year just to prepare the case for court. When Congress authorized free Government access to registration records, Mississippi's legislature simply passed a law empowering state registrars to burn their papers. A voting-discrimination suit against officials in Selma was started in April 1961, but it was not until last month that an effective court order was produced-and Selma's registration history, so eloquently depicted in current headlines, testifies to the effectiveness of that court order...
Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...
Weekending at his ranch in Texas, President Johnson called a press conference on an issue of moment. Viet Nam? Selma? Space? All in good time. What Johnson wanted most to talk about, it seemed, was his dealings with the press, which in recent months have been both infrequent and invidious (TIME, March...