UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
Diaz D. McELVEEN et al., Defendants.
United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 7, 1959.
October 7, 1959.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
W. Wilson White, Asst. Atty. Gen., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.
Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., John E. Jackson, Special Counsel to Atty. Gen., William P. Schuler, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Weldon A. Cousins, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry J. Roberts, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., France W. Watts, Jr., Franklinton, La., for defendant Curtis M. Thomas, Registrar of Voters of Washington Parish.
Ben C. Toledano, New Orleans, La., W. M. Shaw, Homer, La., for Citizens' Council of Washington Parish and individual defendants.
United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
In the spring of 1959 the Citizens' Council, professing a purpose to purge the registration rolls of Washington Parish, Louisiana, of all persons illegally registered, succeeded in disenfranchising 85% of the Negro voters of the Parish and 0.07% of the white. The United States in this action charges that this profession of high purpose was a fraud designed to deny Negro citizens of a right...
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