Word: oktibbeha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amite County pointedly photographed Negroes waiting to register, menacingly asked them who their nearest white neighbors were. In Georgia's Baker County, a civil rights worker was knocked down seven courthouse steps by the sheriff when he brought Negroes in to register. In Mississippi's Oktibbeha County, a Negro woman who asked the sheriff for directions to the courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin...
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