jan 3, 1965 - 1965 US vs Mississippi [POLITICAL]
Description:
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.
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 3, 1965
Now
~ 60 years ago