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Negro Voting Gains Expected in Deep South
An Associated Press survey of thirteen states examines how wholesale Negro registration under a voting rights bill could shift political power in the Deep South. While gains are likely in Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana, entrenched tradition fear and economic dependence may limit a full uprising, with moderate white voters and local offices potentially altering the landscape by 1968.
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South
Deep South
Congress
Associated Press
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Alaska
Maine
Idaho
North Carolina
Clarence L. Townes Jr
Richmond
Townes
C. G. Gomillion
Tuskegee Institute
County Board of Education
Ilase
Macon
Gomillion
Negro Institute
Veterans Administration
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