Southerners scored a sentimental victory last week when the House, following the Senate, voted to restore full citizenship to General Robert E. Lee, a mere 110 years after he had applied for it. Another old Southern question was not so tranquilly disposed of, namely the question of black citizens' right to vote.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had largely settled the issue, imposing fed eral supervision on any state where fewer than half the voters were registered and literacy tests were required.
Six Southern states fell into that category. After the passage of the act, black registration in the South rose...
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