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Registrees Rise as Voting Rights Act Implemented
About 58 000 Negroes registered in 264 counties across Mississippi Alabama Louisiana and Georgia during the first weeks after the act. Doar and Macy praised compliance as federal examiners expanded in 13 counties while Georgia's new voters reached 2 000.
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