I think none of us here has any allusions about the outcome of this redistricting process should the section 5 preclearance requirements be removed. The small gains that blacks have made to date could be all but wiped out by those remaining unreconstructed whites in power who still resist the command of the 15th amendment. A similar result will obtain. Mr. Chairman. if the national ban against the literacy test is not continued. By March 1974. 12.9 percent of blacks over 25 years of age had received less than 5 years of formal education. For MexicanAmericans the figure was 27.2 and 19.5 percent overall for Spanishorigin populations.
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