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LASSITER v. TAYLOR

No. 1019.

152 F.Supp. 295 (1957)

Louise LASSITER et al., Plaintiffs, v. Helen H. TAYLOR, Registrar Seaboard Precinct, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division.

Decided June 10, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor & Mitchell, Raleigh, N. C., and James R. Walker, Statesville, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Vinson Bridgers, of Fountain, Fountain, Bridgers & Horton, Tarboro, N. C., E. N. Riddle, Charlotte, N. C., George Patton, Atty. Gen., and Robert Giles, Asst. Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, for defendant.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and GILLIAM and WARLICK, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is an action begun as a class action by a Negro woman resident in Northampton County, North Carolina, against the registrar of the voting precinct in which she resides, to have the Court declare unconstitutional and void the literacy test for voters prescribed by Section 4 of Article VI of the Constitution of North Carolina and Sections 163-28 of the General Statutes of North Carolina as that section appeared at the time of the institution of the...

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