Federal Brief Filed in Vote Rights Fight
The Justice Department argues the 15th Amendment gives Congress power to enact protections for voting rights in a Supreme Court challenge to the IBBS Voting Rights Act. South Carolina leads the suit with Alabama Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Virginia backing, seeking to suspend literacy tests under certain registration thresholds. The brief contends Congress must remedy abuses to bring citizens into the mainstream and notes enforcement spans multiple states and counties.
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First Negro Bishop Elevated in Louisiana
Harold R. Perry, 49, named auxiliary bishop of New Orleans archdiocese, becoming the nation’s first Negro superior of a major religious order. He will serve 650,000 Catholics and assist Archbishop Hannan, with duties over all Catholics including 60,000 Negro members. Perry, from Lake Charles, entered St Augustine’s Seminary and has been a National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice board member.
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Negroes Seek Federal Court Ruling to Overturn Alabama Election
In Lowndes County Alabama a group of Black residents filed in U S District Court asking to void all elective county offices and to order new elections. They seek the offices of sheriff coroner solicitor tax assessor tax collector and board of education members to be filled in the coming general election, while some posts would wait until 1968 or 1970. The suit names all Lowndes County officers as defendants, alleging white minority rule despite an 80 percent Black population.
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Alabaman Admits Shooting Slain Rights Worker in Tuskegee
The incident centers on Marvin Segrest, a station attendant, who confessed to firing at Samuel L Young Jr. near a bus depot after a dispute about restroom use. Younge, a civil rights worker, was found shot near the station. authorities described the death as tied to the altercation with a white youth. Mrs Florence G Meller, linked to a Chicago philanthropic group, was noted in connection with the slaying.
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