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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss.--Mayor Sam Cooperwood and Registrar Otis Clayton testified yesterday that there was no discrimination against Negroes who attempted to register to vote in Marshall County. "I told them [Negroes] they could go over and register to vote anytime ...They don't need any demonstrations about it," Cooperwood stated. Cooperwood and Clayton gave their testimony at a hearing called by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The MFDP is contesting the seating of the state's five congressmen. The Party subpoenaed the two officials under a several statute which allows election protestants a forty-day period to gather evidence...
Besides testifying on voter registration, Mayor Cooperwood was questioned at length on the relative conditions of the Negro and white schools in Holly Springs. He denied that there were any inequalities, adding, "I don't know what either school program is like, because to tell you frankly, I haven't been in either one for over 20 years...
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