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spent most of the month of November and on into
serer hail we -.- then regrouped tp decide what could be
what projects we needed to fresh evidence of the dager of a complete breakdown of law and
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{2° Citizens of the United States have been shot, seNypon by vici
v mn by vicious
f dogs, beaten and osfierwise terrorized because they sought to vote.
lice October, stydents have been fired upon, ministers have been
*Bsatilted and thé home of the Vice Chaitman of the State Advisory
. flagrant violation of constitu-
Tve worked on voter registration here ever since I went to that ape :
Fret mass meeting. In 1964 we registered. 68,000 black people Leepeg erates
from Mississippi into the Freedom Democratic Party. We formed
our own party because the whites wouldn't even let us register.
We decided to challenge the white Mississippi Democratic Party
at the National Convention, We followed all the laws that the.
white: people themselves made. We tried to attend the precinct
Ineetings and they locked the doors on us or moved the meeting’
and that’s against the laws they made for their ownselves. So-w |
were the ones that held the real precinct meetings. At all these 4