POLL TAXES TO END
NEW AMERICAN BILL VOTES FOR NEGROES (9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. The House of Representatives approved of a bill to outlaw poll taxes and to give voting rights to millions of negroes in the eight southern States. The Governor of Alabama, Mr. F. M. Dixon, and the Governor of South Carolina, Mr. Jefferies, denounced the bill as an attempt to concentrate more power in Washington and an invasion of the States’ rights. Senator Claude Pepper, who sponsored the measure, said: “If we are going to fight for democracy abroad, we should practice it at home.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 3
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99POLL TAXES TO END Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 3
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