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    "title": "Press Release, Statement of the Attorney General on the Proposed Civil Rights Legislation before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Senate Judiciary Committee",
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    "ocrText": "On October 10, 1956, Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III testified\nconcerning the facts regarding Quachita Parish before the Senate Subcommittee\non Privileges and Elections and recommended that the Subcommittee hold public\nhearings in advance of the general election. The Subcommittee took no action\nwith respect to the situation. Had the Administration's program been in\neffect the Department would have been able to initiate a civil action for the\npurpose of restoring the Negro voters to the rolls of registered voters in\ntime to vote in the November election.\nOur investigation has revealed similar situations in several other\nLouisiana parishes. Related problems have developed in other states. For\nexample, our investigations disclosed the following situations in North Carolina\njust prior to the North Carolina primary elections of May 1956.\nThe North Carolina Constitution (Article VI, Section 4) and statutes\n(Gen. Stats. 1943, Ch. 163, Art. 6, Sec. 28) provide that a person, to become\na registered voter, must be able to read and write any section of the\nThe\nNorth Carolina Constitution to the satisfaction of the Registrar. The\n9\nConstitution and Statute also contain a \"grandfather clause\" exempting any\nmale person (or his lineal descendent), entitled to vote January 1, 1867, from\nthis requirement if such person registered prior to December 1908.\n1. Camden County, (Courthouse Township Precinct). In this precinct, the\nRegistrar gave the reading and writing tests to Negro applicants, but not to\nwhite applicants. The latter were permitted to register upon showing the\nnecessary residence etc.\nIn giving the reading and writing tests to Negroes, the Registrar demanded\nthat they write the preamble to the Constitution from her dictation. She re-\nquired in this connection that all spelling, punctuation and capitalization\nbe correct. The complainants, 4 Negro high school graduates, failed the test,\nalthough 2 later memorized the preamble and passed another test.\n- 6 -"
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