![]() įayetteville (Ark.) Northwest Arkansas Times, “Virginia Johnson No Laughing Matter to Her Five Opponents,” July 9, 1968. National Park Service, “Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights” (2009). until litigation by the Justice Department restored In Washington Parish and 75 percent in Ouachita Parish These tactics reduced the Black electorate by 85 percent Targeting the credentials of Black registrants for scrutiny. ![]() Thousands of Black voters by requiring literacy tests and ![]() Mounted a campaign to systematically disenfranchise Rainach and other leaders of the White Citizens’ Council National Association for the Advancement of the Ĭolored People to integrate our schools.” In Rainach’s words, “A vote against these bills isĪn open invitation to the carpetbaggers, scalawags, and Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950’s (Louisiana State University Press, 1999), 74. Schools, and criminalized all efforts to violate segregation School, withheld books and lunches from integrated Nullify graduation certificates from any integrated public The legislature directed the state board of education to ![]() Joint Legislative Committee to Maintain Segregation, To 1960, stridently opposed Brown and fought to delay “Willie” Rainach, whose tenure lasted from 1940 Of civil rights in the Louisiana State Legislature, William Widely regarded as one of the most virulent opponents Shreveport (La.) Times, “Rainach Leaves Mark on State, National Politics,” January 27, 1978. I do not believe the two societies should mix. ![]()
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