New Civil Rights Bill Approved
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WASHINGTON, August 5.
A voting rights Bill which President Johnson says “brings within our immediate vision the day when every American can enter a polling booth without fear or hindrance” needs only his signature to make it law.
The President will choose the time and place to make the signing a ceremonial landmark in the achievement of civil rights for Negroes. The Senate, suddenly speeding up its procedures, gave the final Congressional approval to the Bill last night, by 79 votes to 18, and the President went to the Capitol to extend congratulations in person. The Bill will suspend the use of literacy tests, said to
be used to discriminate against Negroes in much of the South. It will permit the Federal Government under specified conditions to take over the registration of voters. It also calls for the Attor-ney-General to bring a court test on the constitutionality of poll taxes still used In State and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia. Two civil rights leaders expressed less than all-out approval of the measure.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 11
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