Must We Repeal the Constitution to Give the Negro the Vote?

What’s wrong with the voting rights bill? Just about everything, says the author, who feels the job can be done in a constitutional fashion

Alabama’s winter of discontent, it now is evident, is to be followed in Washington by a spring of distemper. The virus of unreason that so pathetically infected Dallas County has been transmuted; and borne by Southern winds, it has descended upon Capitol Hill. Congress is down with the heaves and strangles, and ordinarily sound men are puffing and rolling their eyes.