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(TOPEKA, KANSAS --KANS AS VOTERS HAVE APPROVED 'A\N AMENDMENT T0 THE STATE CONSTITUTION G IVI1G THE VOTE IN STATE AND.LOCAL ELECTIONS TO PERSONS BETWEEN :1 AThD 21 YEARS OLD. THE KANSAS LEGISLATOR : IS EXPECTED TO RATIFY AN A4END ENT TO THE U- , CONSTITUTION THIS WEEK LOWERING THE ACE FOP VOTERS IN ALL ELECTIONS TO 17. SO FAR 13 STATES HAVE RATIFIED TH.- VOTING A'MENDCNT. AT LEAST 25 HORE STATES ArE NEEDED DTFOR. IT GOES INTO THE FEDErA! CONSTITUTION N. JAMES WILLIANS HAS PEEN ELECTED THE FIRST LACK MAYQr OF EAST ST. LOUIS. WILLIAM'S REPLACES ALIN FIELDS, WHO HELD THE POST OF 11AYOR IN' THE CITY FOR 20 YEARS. EAST ST. LOUIS HAS A POPULATION OF 27,000 AND NEARLY 50'00 ARE DL ACK. AP7(P
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Kansas voting, Black mayor],
script,
April 7, 1971, 6:30 a.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1431372/m1/1/:
accessed July 4, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
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