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» Longer projects will obviously involve larger budgets, and more complicated training programs, with opportunities to create a long-range grass-roots voters! organization, follow-up work, evaluations, etc. Partic- tpants in an educational campaign, especially if they live together (as in a single house} will want te set up a steer- ing committee, hold regular evaluations of their work, discuss how they are getting along with local citizens { {and with each other), and allow for some recreati onal and reading time. They should bring with them, among j other things, a suit or a dress (for girls) suitable for attending a local church. Organizations sponsoring educational efforts will’ make every effort to inform participants in projects of the local voting and regis- tration laws, deadlines, etc.” In canvassing for citizens to register to vote, or actually to vote, workers must remember that mothers with children to care for must have some way of having the children watched while they are out of the house. One way of doing ‘this is to have a "chain" in which the first mother to return home sits for the neighbor, who then returns to sit for her neighbor, ete. Car- pools to take groups of people while other workers act as j baby-sitters are another method. Remember that the : puipit, the factory gate, the shopping center, and the street-corner (especially during evenings) are natural channels to urge citizens to register to vote, if these channels are properly approached, and properly used. ag Free films, and leaflets should not be neglected -- both are occasionally available from friendly trade unions. Churches may lend the use of mimeograph machines and typewriters. Ultimately, of course, the purpose of voter reg~ istration is to get people to vote, and to elect to various public offices candidates who will accurately represent the interests of the electorate. Since resources are limited, you will not be involved in any and every voting district in which there may be low registration or participation in elections. Frequently candidates appealing to the Negro vote may not be to your liking, but because they represent at least a small step towards the political education of the community, or because they represent at least a lesser evil alter- native to a racist, you will be put in the position of having to support him. This does not mean you have to support everything he says or does -- but remember: that you are an outsider, and that your criticisms must make sense locally if you are not to isolate yourself from the very community which you seek to help educate. Remember, too, that in many Southern states there are, percentage-wise, as many poor whites excluded from politics as Negroes. At one time, in the 1870's and 1880's, there was a powerful alliance in the South between poor whites and the ex-slave population. The final objective of current campaigns to refranchise the a7