Dirksen's Weekly "a Senator's Notebook" Column About How The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Applies To Literacy Tests. He Includes A Proposal By The Nixon Administration Which Would Further Ban Literacy Tests And Give The Attorney General The Power To Send Voting Examiners To Any State And File Suit, It Also Creates A Presidential Commission To Study Voting Discrimination And Corrupt Voting Practices.

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August 12, 1969, A Senator's Notebook- "Voting Rights in 1969"

Identifier:
EMD_Working_Papers-f376-1969_08_12
Contributing Institution:
The Dirksen Congressional Center, Pekin, IL
Title:
August 12, 1969, A Senator's Notebook- "Voting Rights in 1969"
Date Created:
August 12, 1969
EDTF:
1969-08-12
Creator:
Dirksen, Everett McKinley
Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language:
eng
Record Type:
press releases
Collection:
Everett McKinley Dirksen Papers
Collection Finding Aid:
https://dirksencenter.org/collections/dirksen/collection/papers/
Description:
Dirksen's Weekly "a Senator's Notebook" Column About How The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Applies To Literacy Tests. He Includes A Proposal By The Nixon Administration Which Would Further Ban Literacy Tests And Give The Attorney General The Power To Send Voting Examiners To Any State And File Suit, It Also Creates A Presidential Commission To Study Voting Discrimination And Corrupt Voting Practices.
Policy Area:
Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, Congress, Social Welfare, Government Operations and Politics
Names:
Dirksen, Everett McKinley
Congress:
91st (1969-1971)
Physical Location:
Everett Dirksen Working Papers, Box 5, Folder 376
Type:
Text