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Let me illustrate:
In 1952, several Negro citizens of a certain county
in Mississippi submitted affidavits to us alleging that because
of their race the Registrar of Voters refused to register them.
Although the Mississippi statutes at that time required only
that an applicant be able to read and write the Constitution,
these affidavits alleged that the Registrar demanded that the
Negro citizens answer such questions as "What is due process
of law?" "How many bubbles in a bar of soap?", etc. Those
submitting affidavits included college graduates, teachers and
businessmen yet none of them, according to the Registrar, could
meet the voting requirements. If the Attorney General had the
power to invoke the injunctive process, the Registrar could
have been ordered to stop these discriminatory practices and
qualify these citizens according to Mississippi law.
Another illustration:
The United States Supreme Court recently reversed
the conviction of a Negro sentenced to death by a state court
because of a showing that Negroes had been systematically ex-
cluded from the panels of the grand and petit juries that had
indicted and tried him. In so doing the Supreme Court stated
that according to the undisputed evidence in the record before
it systematic discrimination against Negroes in the selection
of jury panels had persisted for many years past in the county
where the case had been tried. In its opinion the Court
1 a
mentioned parenthetically but pointedly that such discrimination
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