The Negro Vote in the South. A Southern Woman's Viewpoint [suffrage flyer]
NWSA flyer containing an essay by Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Nashville, TN. Mrs. Dudley addresses the fear among white Southern Congressmen that if all women are given the vote through a Federal Suffrage Amendment, the increase in black voting power will be detrimental to the nation. Dudley notes the success of "educational tests" that limit black voter registration. <br /><br />For similar arguments with regard to compulsory education, see "<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/331" target="_blank" title="Need of Compulsory Education in the South" rel="noreferrer noopener">Need of Compulsory Education in the South</a>."
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c13715/" title="Photograph from Library of Congress" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dudley, Mrs. Guilford</a>
<span>M 9 Box 49, </span><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., New York.
1918
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-poll-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-part-ii-one-party-system/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><br /><span>Annotate a </span><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/52dab9cbc57c3a07c703f7389b47ae0a.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this image which can be annotated" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this image</a><span> with </span><a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is Hypothes.is?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 5 [Texas Issue]
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), <em>The Southern Frontier</em> was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South.<br /><br /> As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name <em>The Southern Frontier </em>alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />“The Texas Issue” contains contributions by:<br /><br />Lulu Daniel Ames<br /> Mary E. Branch<br /> J. L. Brock<br /> C. H. Bynum<br /> Thomas W. Currie<br /> John M. Hanna<br /> Francis R. Weber<br /> Lynn Landrum<br /> J. L. Brock<br /> Gordon B. Hancock<br /> Frederick D. Patterson<br /><br />Articles include: “Texans Look Into Negro Education” – An article detailing the meeting of the Texas State Department of Education, the Texas Interracial Committee, and the Texas State Colored Teachers Association to discuss plans to provide in-state graduate education for African American Texans.<br /><br />“Holy Cross Clinic, Austin, Will Open in Early July” – An article detailing the opening of the Holy Cross Cross Clinic, a clinic caring for African Americans on small wages.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3050" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jessie Daniel Ames Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching collection, 1930-1944</a><span>, Austin Seminary Archives, Stitt Library, Austin Presbyterian Seminary Library</span>
1940 May
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Learn more: <br /><span>Pullen, Ann Ellis (2013). "</span><a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/commission-interracial-cooperation" target="_blank" title="Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a><span>" New Georgia Encyclopedia.</span><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a><span>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 8
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South. <br /><br />As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name The Southern Frontier alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time. <br /><br />Vol. 1, No. 8 contains contributions by: <br /><br />C. E. Chapman<br />Jonathan Daniels (<span>editor of the Raleigh, N. C., <em>News and Observer</em>)</span><br />C. C. Spaulding<br /><br />Selected articles are:<br /><br />“The Need to Eat Is Not Racial” – An article discussing the increasingly impoverished conditions faced by not only the black community, but also the white community. It addresses how economic collapse and poor labor laws have resulted in lower-class jobs, perceived to be traditionally black jobs, being taken on by white people, and that the phenomenon it is not immediately a racial issue. <br /><br />“Negroes Celebrate 75 Years of Progress” – An article about the American Negro Exposition held from July 4, 1940 to September 2, 1940 at Chicago Coliseum, an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the emancipation of those held as slaves in the South as well as the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.<br /><br />A notice about Louisiana Senate Bill 100 describes a proposed law that would require that "only bona fide voters can be employed in any capacity by railroads operating within the State" (p. 2).<br /><br />"White Women Seek Repeal of Poll Tax Law" notes that only eight states still assess a poll tax for the privilege of exercising the right of the franchise.<br /><br />Death notices (outlined in mourning black) for Dr. James Hardy Dillard, Mrs. Hallie Paxson Winsborough, and John W. Abercrombie are found on p. 4.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3050" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jessie Daniel Ames Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching collection, 1930-1944</a>, Austin Seminary Archives, Stitt Library, Austin Presbyterian Seminary Library
1940 August
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State Capitation Tax receipts [poll tax receipts]
Virginia State Capitation Tax receipts from the various years. <br /><br />Note: Names and addresses have been removed from these receipts. <br /><p>Poll taxes<span> </span>have a long and contentious history in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Payment of the tax first became a requirement for voting in 1876, as part of an effort to make it more difficult for African Americans and poor whites to participate in elections. Beginning in 1904, Virginians could not register to vote without presenting proof of having paid the poll tax for each of the three years preceding an election.</p>
<p>In March of 1966, in the case of<span> </span><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/663/" target="_blank" title="Text of this case" rel="noreferrer noopener"><i>Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections</i></a>, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the poll tax was unconstitutional. In 1970, the Virginia Constitution omitted authorization of the General Assembly to make payment of a poll tax a prerequisite for voting.</p>
Commonwealth of Virginia
M 68, Box 11, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/273.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="Finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Edward H. Peeples, Jr. Papers, n.d., 1910, 1943-1994</a>. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library
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Learn more: <br />Tarter, B. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/poll_tax" target="_blank" title="Poll Tax in Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll Tax</a>. <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=poll+tax" target="_blank" title="materials related to poll taxes" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll tax</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-poll-tax/" target="_blank" title="Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax (1940)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax (1940)</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://progressive.org/dispatches/nurturing-roots-90for90-black-political-power/" target="_blank" title="Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power.</a> The Progressive, July 15, 2016.
Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote [broadside]
This broadside was issued by the Equal Suffrage League in about 1916. <br /><br />Southern suffragists were forced to respond to anti-suffrage groups who argued that if African American women gained the right to vote, white supremacy would be threatened. Although some prominent suffragists claimed that their response was borne only out of expedience, and not principle, they nonetheless employed Jim Crow arguments by emphasizing the power of the literacy test and the poll tax.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=7491bc35-de43-4df5-bc24-c73a55b94ac4" target="_blank" title="Broadsides 1916:1" rel="noreferrer noopener">Broadside Collection, Call Number 1916:1</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
c. 1916
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia and Procedures and Requirements for Voting in Virginia
This 1944 booklet is the Virginia Voters League’s fifth annual report. The League began in 1941 and worked with the NAACP in advocating for increased African American participation at the polls. It was led by <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jackson_Luther_Porter_1892-1950#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Encyclopedia Virgina entry on Jackson" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther P. Jackson</a>, an historian and civil rights advocate who formed the Petersburg League of Negro Voters in 1935, which developed into the Virginia Voters League. The booklet details African American voting strength and includes instructions for voter registration. <br /><br />At this time in Virginia, the payment of a poll tax for three consequtive years was a requirement for voting. The booklet notes that in 1943, the number of blacks who met the poll tax requirement was 32,504. That number increased to 41,579 in 1944. Nevertheless, those numbers represent only 9 to 11 per cent of Virginia blacks of voting age, or expressed another way, about 89 per cent of blacks were disqualified from voting in 1944. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Title page: "With grant-in-aid of publication by the Virginia State Teachers Association, Virginia branches of the N.A.A.C.P., Virginia lodges of Elks, the Eureka Lodge of Norfolk, Virginia chapters of Greek letter fraternities and sororities, and the Virginia Negro Organization Society." <br /><br />p. 4 <br /><strong>Foreward</strong><br />This fifth annual report of the Virginia Voters League defines the voting status of Negroes in Virginia as of May 7, 1944, the last day for paying the poll tax in order to have voted in the ensuing August primary and the November election. In order to satisfy the demand for a statement of voting requirements in Virginia and other states this handbook devotes a section to this topic also. <br /><br />To all persons who seek to advance the political status of Negroes and to observe racial trends on suffrage in Virginia this publication may serve as a guide. <br /><br />The compiler of this report is again deeply indebted to the 124 county and city court clerks in Virginia for furnishing the data on poll tax paying either by letter or by sending the poll tax list itself. Every county and city is included in this report because every clerk cooperated. <br /><br /><strong>SLOGAN</strong><br /><strong>Pay the poll tax in order to abolish the poll tax. </strong>
Jackson, Luther P.
Virginia Voters League
General collection, <a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" title="Search VMHC collections" rel="noreferrer noopener">JK1929.V8 V8 1944</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1944
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" title="Controlling the Vote. Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation.</a> Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Dennis, M. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jackson_Luther_Porter_1892-1950#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Luther Porter Jackson biography" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther Porter Jackson (1892–1950)</a>. <em>Encyclopedia Virginia </em><br /><br />"<a href="https://www.progress-index.com/news/20190625/va-highway-marker-honors-creators-of-virginia-voters-league-in-petersburg" target="_blank" title="newspaper article" rel="noreferrer noopener">Va. highway marker honors creators of Virginia Voters League in Petersburg</a>" <em>The Progress-Index <br /> <br /></em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=poll+tax" target="_blank" title="other materials related to the poll tax" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll tax</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Report of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, November 1963
Report of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation. The bipartisan commission was created by Executive Order on March 30, 1963 by President John F. Kennedy. The Commission was chaired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Scammon" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richard M. Scammon</a>, Census Director. <br /><br />The report was transmitted on November 26, 1963, just days after Kennedy's assassination. In February, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson mailed this report along with a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/475" target="_blank" title="read the accompanying letter from President Johnson" rel="noreferrer noopener">letter to Eleanor P. Sheppard</a>, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. <br /><br />In its opening summary, the Commission wrote: <br /><br />"One-third of our adults do not vote in presidential elections, and more than half do not vote in congressional elections. The reasons for America's low voter participation are both psychological and legal. <br /><br />Psychological causes of low turnout must be attacked by education and educational programs. Every citizen and group has a responsibility to join in this effort. <br /><br />The Commission endorses the practice of comprehensive register-and-vote campaigns to encourage and inform potential voters. We specifically call for a new effort by our schools in the teaching of citizenship, and we underscore the great responsibility of parents in citizenship education. <br /><br />The Commission strongly believes that effective two-party competition in all areas of the Nation will build and maintain interest in public affairs and lead to greater voter participation. We commend the two party system and all efforts to strengthen that system. <br /><br />Restrictive legal and administrative procedures in registration and voting disfranchise millions. To overcome such restrictions, taking into account the disparity in law and practice amont the States, we recommend the following specific standards: <br /><br />[Twenty-one standards are listed, including the elimination of literacy tests and poll taxes and the extension of voting to persons eighteen years of age.] <br /><br />The implementation of these standards will guarantee the right to vote to every citizen, adduring in fact what we proclain in theory--the supremacy of the individual in American political life." <br /><br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d029875154&view=1up&seq=3" target="_blank" title="read the report" rel="noreferrer noopener">Complete report</a> available through HathiTrust.
President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation
M 277, Box 11, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/591.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eleanor P. Sheppard papers, 1924 - 1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office
1963 November
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1963/Month%2005/Day%2008/JFKWHP-1963-05-08-D" target="_blank" title="Photographs" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit of the Commission on Registration & Voting Participation, 12:25PM</a>, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum <br /><br />Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. <a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHSFLCW/003/JFKWHSFLCW-003-002" target="_blank" title="archival materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 23 April 1963-30 March 1964</a><br /><br /><span>Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. <a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHSFLCW/003/JFKWHSFLCW-003-001" target="_blank" title="archival materials, 1962-1963" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 21 December 1962–30 March 1963</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/475" target="_blank" title="Letter to Mayor Sheppard from President Johnson" rel="noreferrer noopener">Letter to Eleanor P. Sheppard from Lyndon B. Johnson</a>, February 10, 1964</span>
Voting Rights Act...the first months
Within the first six weeks after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, staff attorneys from the Commission on Civil Rights visited 32 Southern counties and parishes to study the implementation of the legislation. This document is their report, transmitted to the President, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in November 1965. <br /><br />The Commission found widespread compliance, but also a need for further action. Their "Findings and Recommendations," along with the section titled, "Problems in Registration" are presented here. <br /><br />Read the report's <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4185?child_index=9&query=&sidebar_page=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="read the report's history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965">Chapter 1: History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p.34 Problems in Registration<br /><br />Some country registrars in Mississippi and Alabama have violated the new law by refusing to register illiterates....<br /><br />Delay has created a problem in Alabama and South Carolina, principally because these States have a restricted number of registration days. <br /><br />p. 35 In some counties in North Carolina, registrars conduct all but three days of registration in their own homes or places of business. Social and psychological barriers are likely to deter Negroes from seeking out a registrar in his exclusively white neighborhood.... <br /><br />Racial violence related to civil rights activities is another factor which has limited applications in some counties with examiners. The killing of seminarian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Daniels" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="biographical information on Jonathan Daniels">Jonathan Daniels</a> in Lowndes Country, Alabama, on August 20 and the acquittal of his killer on September 30 appear to have been the single most important factor in reducing Negro applications in that county. It is symbolic of conditions there that a pick-up truck with a rifle visibly displayed has been parked daily immediately outside the examiner's office since the opening of the office. Registration workers in the country have reported increasing threats against their lives and continued efforts to intimidate resident Negro leaders.<br /><br />------<br /><br />This booklet on the Voting Rights Act was part of a resource file on civil rights and voting in the files of the National Federation of Settlements. The Federation was active in community organizing for social justice, voting, and civil rights. The <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4176" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="complete document and transcript">entire document along with a transcript</a> is available via the University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
United States Commission on Civil Rights
<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/resources/2445" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records</a> (<a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4176" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="view this document">Box 169, Folder 3</a>), Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
1965
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Jefferson Ward: List of Qualified Voters, Election Tuesday, November 7, 1933
<p>This 1933 booklet provides “a list of persons in Jefferson Ward in the City of Richmond, who have paid their State Poll Taxes.” Poll taxes were enacted by many southern states after Reconstruction to suppress African American voting. Such taxes were a precondition for voting and thus disenfranchised those who could not pay the fee. <br /><br />Use of the poll tax in federal elections was abolished with the passage of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964, and in state-level elections by the 1966 Supreme Court decision in <em>Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections</em>. <br /><br />The booklet is divided into “WHITE” voters, listed in the first 274 pages, and “COLORED” voters, listed on pages 275 to 304.</p>
Unknown, but presumably “H. L. Hulce, Treasurer of the City of Richmond, Virginia,” who swore “that the foregoing is a true list,” as described on page 305.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=76257a97-9be4-4971-b1b5-351eec5dcce9">General collection, Call Number F233.69 .J3</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1933
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set" rel="noreferrer noopener">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation</a>. Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=poll+tax" target="_blank" title="items related to poll taxes" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll tax materials</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br />Tarter, B. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Poll_Tax#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Poll Tax" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll Tax</a>, Encyclopedia Virginia
Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage [broadside]
Reprint of an editorial from the <em>Richmond Evening Journal</em>, May 4, 1915. <br /><br />"Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage <br />---- <br />Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia <br />The entire State of Mississippi <br />----- <br />What of your state, your country? Isn't it about time for reflecting men and women to think--and act? <br />---- <br />THE THREATENED COUNTIES <br />From the Richmond Evening Journal May 4, 1915--Republished by Request <br /><br />Several times The Richmond Evening Journal has be asked to say which counties of Virginia have more colored than white female inhabitants. The question , of course, is in connection with the somewhat noisy demands we read of in the newspapers for "votes for women." Here is the list, from the United States census of 1910:<br /><br />...It is to be remembered that the literacy test would not work in choking off the colored woman vote. The colored people are decreasing their percentage of illiteracy very fast, especially among their women and girls. The ladies of the suffrage league will hardly come forward with a property test. No safeguard would be left but the poll tax; and if colored women knew they could get votes and rule some very rich and important counties by paying $1.50 apiece, we are inclined to think most of them would be willing to go hungry, if necessary to do it. <br /><br />Probably the ladies engaged in this suffrage movement are not very practical or very logical or very well informed or disposed to bother their heads with the actual facts of politics. Most of them, we surmise, hold the somewhat vague, but firmly established feminine line of reasoning that when they want something , or think they want it, they ought to have it by all principles of wisdom and justice; and are prepared always to fall back on the traditional conclusive feminine argument "because."
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The Candle. Vol. I, No. V, December 1957
Newsletter published by the Virginia State Conference-NAACP. The Candle's header shows two lighted candles and the motto, "It is Better to Light One Candle Than to Curse the Darkness."<br /><br />This issue includes reporting on the Virginia Political Action convention. Photographs of particiapnts in the Visual Aid Educational Political Action program show young people in costume and with props illustrating the importance of voting.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />Cover photograph captioned "The Three Presidents. 22 Years of Progressive Leadership. Dr. J. M. Tinsley of Richmond, president emeritus of the Virginia State Conference, congratulates Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt of Fredericksburg the newly elected Conference president as Dr. E. B. Henderson of Falls Church, retiring president looks on. Dr. Tinsley retired in 1955 after servicing as Conference president for 20 years. Dr. Henderson, after serving as president for two years could not stand for re-election because of a constitutional provision (adoped in 1955) prohibiting a third term."<br /><br />p.2 In our PAC work we have to keep going over the same points. In Virginia 26% of the adult population is colored, but we do not have a single Negro among the 100 Delegates in the General Assembly, nor among the 40 Senators. If we could get the majority of Negroes to vote our fight against segregation and discrimination would make real headway. <br /><br />There are three steps in getting Negroes to "count"; payment of poll taxes before the deadline, registration, and voting. Why don't more colored people vote? Some don't think it matters, some lack the education, some are fearful, and some just don't make the effort. We must keep hammering to get the deadlines met, to get older people who have never voted to overcome their shyness, to get citizens to study up on issues and candidates. We must inspire our teachers, ministers, and civic leaders to be voting citizens themselves and to preach the importance of using the ballot to win freedom.
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