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This conference, according to Jack W. Gravely, executive director of the state NAACP, will map strategies for black political action in the Old Dominion. It will be closed to the press and public and will be attended by about 400 invited delegates. “Our purpose,” said Gravely, “is to mobilize the black vote in the state in behalf of an agenda of issues of concern to black citizens and all citizens of Virginia.”
There is not much question that if the black voters of the state could be mobilized, they would constitute a major, and perhaps decisive, force in almost any election. There are about 950,000 blacks in the state, or about 18 per cent of the population. Gravely says there are about 400.000 potential black voters, but only around 250.000 of them are registered.
He might have added that in recent elections only a small percentage of those registered have turned out at the polls on election day. Gravely believes voter apathy can be neutralized by rallying black voters behind issues which they perceive as relevant.
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