Word: panola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such instances, Clayton built a reputation, even among his critics, for fair-mindedness. That, plus some reversals by higher courts, began to nudge him away from 19th century Southern justice. Clayton watchers agree that the balance was tipped by U.S. v. Duke in 1963, a voting-rights case in Panola County, Miss. Judge Clayton had ruled that Negroes barred from the voting rolls had not shown that they were actually qualified under Mississippi standards...
...recent years, Mississippi Republicans have elected a Congressman, two state representatives, and a smattering of city officials, and in 1964 the state went 87% for Goldwater. Last week, after a runoff election in Panola County, Attorney William E. Corr Jr., 29, became the first Republican member of the state senate since Reconstruction...
...immediate registration of Mississippi Negro voters was the sole purpose of the summer's work, then the Project was a miserable failure. Only about 1100 Negroe were added to the voting rolls during the summer; and over half of that number came from Panola County alone, where a federal court order had abolished the registration test. At this rate, it would take four centuries to register all of Mississippi's Negroes...
...major issues discussed was the place of voter registration in the total movement. Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant accomplishment of COFO, is only a start, a way to get at "bread and butter issues." The larger economic problems, like land distributions, will have to be worked out by "traditional political tactics of discussion and compromise" by all the people of the state...
Weaver was project director in Batesville, Panola County, one of the biggest projects in the state, and has been working in the state for the past year. The Batesville project registered about 600 Negroes to vote in the coming election...