In long, patient hours at the polls, Alabama's Negroes grasped for themselves last week the full citizenship to which federal civil rights legislation had served only as a passport. Their courage and persistence proved an optimistic augury, not only for the Old Confederacy's five million Negroes of voting age but also for the nation as a whole. For the promise held out by Alabama's primary is that the politics of the South will become more mature and more meaningful as more and more Negroes freely participate in elections, the free society's fundamental...
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