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Southern Negroes register to vote amid rights drive
The Associated Press reports Southern Black voters surge toward the polls under the new voting rights law. About 1,230 Negroes have registered in Americas Georgia since enactment, while federal registrars operate in nine counties across Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. Alabama counties convene to review literacy tests as registration rises in Lowndes and Wilcox. A federal suit challenges the law’s constitutionality in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, with Governor McKeithen backing the effort.
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Associated Press
Americas
Nicholas Katzenbach
Sumter County
Americus
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Dallas County
Ala
Lowndes
Wilcox
A. P. Gallinghouse
Orleans Parish
John McKeithen
McKeithen
Seawall
Negro Registration
Board of Elections
Cong Congress
North Carolina
Daniel R. Mcleod