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The McCall Library at the University of South Alabama has the records of the local Mobile chapter of the League of Women Voters over the period of 1956 to 1987. [4] On May 23, 1955, twenty-four individuals met for the first meeting of the League of Woman Voters of Mobile at the Mobile Public Library, and the Chapter achieved provisional ...
Kirkland, Scotty E. Pink Sheets and Black Ballots: Politics and Civil Rights in Mobile, Alabama, 1945-1985. Master's thesis, University of South Alabama, 2009. Nicholls, Keith. "The Non-Partisan Voters' League of Mobile, Alabama: Its Founding and Major Accomplishments." Gulf Coast Historical Review 8 (Spring 1993): 74–88.
Low voter turnout among white women voters in Alabama was blamed by political researchers on a general "disinterest" in politics among that demographic. [39] However Minnie Steckel discovered in her 1937 study of Alabama women voters that white women were disproportionately affected by the poll tax. [40] Black women were also affected by the ...
Apr. 6—A coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit to block Alabama's recently enacted "Anti-Ballot Harvesting Bill" sponsored by Sen ...
Alabama’s congressional map dilutes the power of Black voters, voting rights advocates told the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a filing that accuses the state of “unabashedly” defying an ...
More than 900 of the initial 3,251 voters proved they were legal voters by September, according to Helms' testimony. On Tuesday, less than a month before the election, another 1,000 were reactivated after the secretary of state's office doublechecked driver's license information from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Helms said.
Alabama's law was challenged by the League of Women Voters. [11] The decision effectively struck down a rule that required voters in Alabama to provide proof they are American citizens. Under federal law, voters only need to swear that they are citizens in order to register to vote. [12] [13] Merrill applauded the 2013 Shelby County v.
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