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Freedom Now in the Deep South Voter Shift
The piece highlights the 1965 Voting Rights Act transforming southern elections. It notes rising black political power, over 460 elected black officials, and two Mississippi and North Carolina mayoral wins. It warns of potential backsliding if federal overseers end in 1970.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph David Aber- Neathy
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Atlanta
Abernathy
Deep South
Supreme Court
Old South
South
Mississippi
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina
Fayette
Miss
Delta
Charles Evers
Mississippi Naacp
Medgar Evers
Raleigh
Elizabeth Cofield
Winston- Salem State
County Commission
Neshoba County