jan 3, 1965 - 1965 US vs Mississippi [POLITICAL]

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March 1965 United States vs Mississippi SC overturned a Mississippi law discriminating against AA voter registration.

Voting qualifications in Mississippi were held to be deliberately discriminatory, part of a careful plan to keep Negroes from voting.

By 1964 only 5% of black people in Mississippi could vote. The voting qualifications included ‘proof of moral character’.

Case brought by NAACP.

Evidence of own actions and a sympathetic Supreme Court.

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