Chairman. not but one time in history have more than 60 percent of the people of this country voted for the President of the United States. That one occasion was in 1964 when approximately 62 percent voted in the presidential election. In my State of South Carolina. the Attorney General presumes that we discriminate against the Negro. simply because we have a literacy test. which is constitutional and which the Supreme Court has held to be legal. and because less than 50 percent of the qualified electors voted in November 1964. Let us analyze the facts and see what evidence. other than an illfounded presumption. the Attorney General has for castigating my State as one guilty of discrimination against the Negroes at the ballot box. The South Carolina voter education project. a Negro group organized to get Negroes to register. told the Associated Press on March 16. 1965. in Columbia.
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