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Supreme Court to Rule on Subversives and Ballot Rights
The Supreme Court agreed to decide if states may bar subversives from practicing law and whether Communist party candidates can be kept off ballots. The rulings test the 1954 Communist Control Act and touch on desegregation actions affecting about 300000 students across Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana and Mississippi. Civil liberties groups urge immediate desegregation while the government seeks delays until September. The court also weighs independence of the bar against state scrutiny of political associations and upholds a Philadelphia Plan challenge to construction hiring for Negroes.
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