There has been no suit brought by Attorney General Katzenbach in South Carolina based on discrimination against Negroes. Nevertheless. Attorney General Katzenbach says South Carolina is one of the States that must come into court in the District of Columbia and prove to the satisfaction of the court that it does not discriminate against Negroes. simply because that State has a legal literacy test and failed to vote half of its qualified electors in On the other hand. the State of New York. for example. which also has a literacy test. would not be covered by H.R. 6400 since it voted more than 50 percent of its qualified electors in November 1964. However. New Yorks literacy test law is just as harsh. if not more so than the law in South Carolina. Moreover. there are several hundred counties in the United States where discrimination is known to exist. but the Attorney Generals formula does not cover these counties because they do not have a literacy test requirement. If you want a law that sets up double standards for different areas of the country. then you should vote for H.R. 6400. But if you believe in prescribing the same medicine for all people in all States throughout the land. you cannot support H.R. 6400.
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