question about civil rights movement in the 1950's

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I googled 1952 voting and found:

From the website http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/jim_cr...hapter10_1.htm

In the face of physical, economic, and psychological warfare, the South's Negroes have intensified their struggle to get at the ballot boxes. still, by 1958, when a Conference on Voting Restrictions in Southern States was held in Washington, D.C., not more than one fourth of the South's 6,000,000 Negroes of voting age were registered to vote. This Conference, sponsored by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (a private group uniting Southern whites and Negroes against discrimination), presented the Department of justice and Civil Rights Commission with state-by-state reports on violations of the Negro's right to vote. Here are just a few of the highlights the Conference threw upon democracy's low points down South:

Mississippi: Negroes free to vote in only six of the state's 82 counties.

Alabama: Negroes constitute 30 per cent of the population, 6 per cent of the voters.

Georgia: 160,000 of the state's 650,000 potential Negro voters are registered to vote.

Virginia: 60,000 of the state's 750,000 Negroes are registered to vote.

Florida: 148,000 of the state's 370,000 potential Negro voters arc registered.

Louisiana: Negroes constitute 30 per cent of the population, 16 per cent of the voters.

Also some info about laws that were created in 1952 South Carolina is here. http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/script...uth%20Carolina

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/ might have relevant info.

Here is a link to a paper written by WEB DuBois about why he won't vote in 1956. http://www.thenation.com/doc/19561020/19561020dubois

I hope this is helpful. I suggest you look to the Department of Justice, NAACP, The ACLU, and the League of Women Voters.