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...state patrolmen were there; so were newsmen and television crews. Governor Ross Barnett, fresh from a long meeting with the state college board, from which he had extracted the authority to deal personally with "the nigger," flew into Oxford, drove to the campus, and there took over as special registrar of the university. Barnett had promised the people of Mississippi-despite telephone calls from U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who had warned him of the legal consequences -that he would go to jail before he would permit Negro James H. Meredith to register for classes...
Curiously enough, I found the Northern forms of discrimination to be more frustrating to deal with, precisely because the concealment of discriminatory practices has been permitted. For example, when I spoke to the registrar of voters at the Hartford City Hall in order to obtain information for a badly needed voter registration campaign in Hartford's predominantly Negro districts, he stated flatly, "We don't keep figures on how many Negroes are registered." He then added, "I have a pretty good idea, but I'm not going to tell you. What are you bothering about them for, anyway? What race...
...lived on East Carroll's rich Delta cotton land all of his life-an amiable, chatty man who leads a church founded by his great-grandfather. But seven times in the past ten years, he has been unable to prove his identity. The county voting registrar requires vouches of identification from two registered voters. But all the registered voters were white, and Scott, like 61% of East Carroll's 14,443 residents, is a Negro. A friend once said hopefully, "I have some white friends, and we're all Christians." Scott answered: "Nobody's a Christian...
...miles of doorbell-ringing arguments against fear and apathy-but it is beginning to pay off. White and colored students working in Raleigh, N.C.-where an 8,000-vote Negro bloc has been the deciding factor in the last two municipal elections-cruised through Negro neighborhoods with a Negro registrar in their bus and station wagon, registered 1,300 new voters at the curbside in six weeks. In Terrell County, Ga., a federal injunction two years ago finally resulted in the registration of 51 of the county's 8,209 Negroes. Last week New York Times Correspondent Claude Sitton...
...methods of making sure that their luck will be tough are unchanging: economic and physical intimidation; registrars who are chronically unsatisfied with the way a Negro interprets the state constitution or completes a registration blank. A registrar in Forrest County, Miss., found five college graduates illiterate. In Plaquemines Parish, La., the Civil Rights Commission was told that finding the registrar was "like a game of hide and seek." In 13 Southern counties Negroes constitute a majority of the population-and not one vote. In 35 other counties, 3% or less of the qualified Negroes are registered...