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Roy Wilkins Discusses the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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As part of a pre-debate interview at the Virginia Tech YMCA, the Executive Director of
the NAACP Roy Wilkins spoke in response to James J. Kilpatrick's comments on the 1965
Voting Rights Act. Wilkins supported the requirement for city governments to petition
Washington if they wanted to change voting precinct boundaries: "If they had been honest
all along, there wouldn't have been any such requirement. But they haven't been." He
dismissed Kilpatrick's denouncement of the inconsistencies related to literacy in North
Carolina by pointing to the illiterate voting that occurs outside of that state and above
the Mason Dixon line. Wilkins admitted that the formula must have "been difficult to
arrive at" but pointed out how the framers faced the necessity of "finding some kind of
formula that would stand the test of constitutionality."
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