 On and after the first day of January, AD, 1892, every elector shall, in addition to the foregoing qualifications, be able to read any section of the constitution of this State; or he shall be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable...  Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights - Página 62de United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1959Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 978 páginas
...Registration is necessary, and the voter must be "able to read any section of the Constitution of the State; or he shall be able to understand the same...him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." State Finances. — On I Sept. 19x11 the total indebtedness of the State, including $2,208,300 of debt... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1911 - 558 páginas
...within the State must hereafter " be able to read any section " of the Constitution of Mississippi, or " be able to understand the same when read to him or give a reasonable interpretation thereof " " This was, ostensibly and in fact, a method of disfranchising a large body of citizens who had been... | |
 | 1912 - 122 páginas
...the first day of January, AD 1892, every elector shall, in addition to the foregoing qualifications, be able to read any section of the constitution of...him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof. A new registration shall be made before the next ensuing election after January 1st, AD 1892. SEC.... | |
 | Holland Thompson - 1921 - 276 páginas
...qualifications mentioned above, a person desiring to vote must be able to read any section of the constitution, "or he shall be able to understand the same when read...him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." Even when fairly administered, this section operated to disfranchise more negroes than whites, for... | |
 | 1919 - 958 páginas
...Registration is necessary, and the voter must be able to read any section of the Constitution of the State, or be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof. He must also have paid taxes for two years and must pay a poll tax of $2 for school maintenance. State... | |
 | 1921 - 414 páginas
...years, and must, in addition, "be able to read any section in the constitution of this state, or ... be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." Much might be said in favor of such an alternative intelligence qualification in the abstract : the... | |
 | Thames Williamson - 1922 - 576 páginas
...may be a substitute for reading and writing; and in Mississippi it is provided that the voter must "be able to read any section of the constitution of...him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." . . . The whole machinery of [such clauses] is in the hands of the white election officers, who are... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - 1925 - 634 páginas
...permitted to register The "Un- "sna^ be a°le to read any section of the Constituderstanding tion of the State; or he shall be able to understand the same when read to him, or to give a reasonable interpretation thereof." As the registration officers were practically all white... | |
 | William Anderson - 1925 - 700 páginas
...the first day of January, AD 1892, every elector shall, in addition to the foregoing qualifications, be able to read any section of the constitution of...him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof." x No exceptions were specified but clearly the election authorities were given a wide latitude in applying... | |
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