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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
6
Readers in Warren County NC and other southern papers react to the Supreme Court ruling ending legal segregation. Opinions range from disappointment and call for gradualism to warnings about private schools and social mixing, urging calm study and careful action.
The piece notes an estimated 16 million Negroes with about 3 million registered voters, over a million in the South. It recalls historical party alignment, shows a 73 percent Democratic and 27 percent Republican split in 1952, and cites an NAACP survey finding over 90 percent Negro Democratic support in several cities.
In 1952 interviews a large share of Negro respondents blamed Eisenhower or the Republican Party for the court decision on voting rights. Most said they were Democrats or declined to say, while many noted the potential impact of the Negro vote in marginal districts and the broader influence of economic issues.
Summary notes that wire tapping requires prior authorization for divulged information and notes no convictions under the law. It cites FBI use, discusses trust funds in the budget, Senate election cycles, and Mexican laborer importation under a 1964 Congressional Quarterly copyright.
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