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2. Inevitable disappointments
Cortain key sections of the legislation, even with the most ef-
fective implementation, may prove a severe disappointment to civil rights
groups. For instance:
(a) The provision in the original voting title authorizing
the use of Federal registrars to prevent undue delay in registering
Negroes for elections has been dropped. If registration of voters in
the South is hold over past the coming fall elections, this could be
a serious blow to those who expect that the Act will provide them with
the political power that they may have come to expect. In addition,
the bill still leaves the States with considerable ability to evade
the intent to provide for the registration of Negro voters. As the
Civil Rights Commission has pointed out probably nothing short of a
national code of voter qualifications will do.
(b) We do not believe the education title will sibstantially
accelerate the pace of school desegregation. Some House Committee
members estimated that at the present pace all the presently segregated
school districts will be desegregated by the year 2063. We expect
that the technical assistance, the grants, the provision for the Attomey
General to bring suit upon receipt of a complaint will do same good.
But will school desegregation by 2000 or by 1990 be satisfying?
3. Implementation of the Act
Passage of the new Act will be a legislative milestone. But it
will only be the beginning. The Act will be important as an expression
of national and congressional sentiment. It will convey important new
enforcement authorities. But in and of itself it will do very little.
The accomplishment will come in the enforcement.
Accordingly, it is of the highest importance that the scheme of enforce-
ment: be carefully thought out. That it be coordinated with private
efforts. That it be tied in with the great moral force of the President
exercised through a great variety of ways.
A schemo of enforcement in depth is needed. There must be fall-back
positions conceived in advance. The scheme must be adequately publicized.
It nust be funded and staffed. Additional legislation may be needad
to provide more judges, for example, if enforcement cases overwhelm
the present court complement.
Most of the sections of the new Act authorize special enforcement pro-
cedures. What are the priorities among sections in tenms of need and
results? Should the authorities be used selectively or massively?
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