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Joseph Martin, a communications worker for COFO, said that the students believe that the injunction is illegal because it violates their constitutional rights to petition, and that the injunction should have been issued against the registrar...
...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...
...year preparation for senior college work in liberal arts, business education and teaching. He helps out his eleven-man faculty by teaching two biology classes, a speech class and sometimes a psychology class. His wife, who holds a master's degree in education from Michigan, works as the registrar. Enrollment...