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N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers, who has sought to weld newly registered Negroes into an effective bloc-voting machine, said that in at least three heavily Negro Delta counties the elections amounted to "outright robbery," even though federal observers were on hand to monitor the balloting.
In fact, the reasons for the Negroes' defeat and Williams' victory were more complex than mere fraud. For one thing, many Negroes voted for white candidates over Negroes because, as Evers conceded, "a lot of Negroes just can't imagine any Negro being half as smart as...
Then, too, Winter and Evers played a Machiavellian game that backfired.
During the campaign, Winter met secretly with Negro leaders, explained to them that he would have to sound like a segregationist in public in order to pick up the white conservative vote that he needed, along with Negro support, to win. Realizing that this was the only course that would...
Evers had his eye squarely on the elections. "We didn't do what we hoped," he allowed, "but we did all right." Negro leaders this week will hold a strategy meeting to concentrate their support for local candidates and size up the race for Governor. "We will pick a...