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Negro Vote Shapes South Race for Congress and State Seats
Across the South, extensive Negro voter influence could elect Dixie's only black congressman and boost Humphrey in South Carolina and Mississippi. In Alabama's 5th District Rev. William Branch challenges five white opponents in a district with nearly half Black voters. Mississippi and Georgia see many Black candidates aiming at state House seats while 204 Negro candidates contest offices nationwide.
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Atlanta
UPI
Dixie
South Carolina
Mississippi
Hubert H. Humphrey
South
Alabama
Birmingham
William McKinley
Branch
Strom Thurmond
Richard M. Nixon
Confederacy
John Bell Wiliams
Wallace
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