Identifier
USvMS_Interrog_Answers_Section6
Publication Date
1965
Description
The factual basis for the assertion that the 1960 amendment to the 1890 Mississippi Constitution (any person registering to vote after the effective date of the law should be of good moral character) was designed to prevent African Americans from voting while exempting white citizens from the requirement.
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
United States. Supreme Court; United States. Court of Appeals; Civil rights -- Mississippi; Segregation -- Mississippi; Suffrage -- Mississippi; Education -- Mississippi;
Relational Format
book
Original Collection
United States v. Mississippi Interrogatory Answers, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Finding Aid
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