Word: registrar
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...criminal acts has been exploited by unfriendly national news media." They also included 41 Mississippi Negroes, telling of the civil rights abuses they have suffered in their native state. But the plight of Negroes in Mississippi was perhaps most strikingly illustrated by a white segregationist: G. H. Hood, voting registrar of Humphreys County in the western part of Mississippi...
That county's 12,600 Negroes comprise two-thirds of its population, but not a single one is registered to vote. Since Hood, a balding man with a dark scowl, became registrar in 1960, only 16 Negroes have even bothered to try. As elsewhere in Mississippi, the most effective block to Negro registration is a state law requiring that any prospective voter read and interpret to the satisfaction of registrars one of the 286 sections of the state constitution. It is the registrar, of course, who picks the section for the test...
Taking the Cue. As Registrar Hood appeared last week, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold, a member of the commission, leaned toward him and said: "I hand you a copy of Section 182 of the Mississippi state constitution. For the benefit of the commission, would you give us a reasonable interpretation of it?" Hood read silently, then said, "Well, it means that the power to tax corporations and their property . . ." Interrupted Griswold: "I didn't ask you to read it-I asked you to interpret...
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...
During the two-hour lunchbreak, the MFDP attorneys drove to the registrar's office. They arrived at 11:15 a.m., only to find that Mr. Clayton had closed his office for the day and would admit...