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UNITED STATES v. McELVEEN

Civ. A. No. 9146.

180 F.Supp. 10 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Diaz D. McELVEEN, E. Ray McElveen, Saxon Farmer and Eugene Farmer, Individually and as members of the Citizens Council of Washington Parish, Louisiana, Curtis M. Thomas, Registrar of Voters of Washington Parish, Louisiana, and the Citizens Council of Washington Parish, Louisiana, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

January 11, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. F. Ryan, Jr., Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, M. E. Culligan, John E. Jackson, Weldon A. Cousins, Wm. P. Schuler, Henry J. Roberts, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen. of Louisiana, for defendant.

France Watts, Jr., Franklinton, La., for Curtis M. Thomas.

Benjamin C. Toledano, New Orleans, La., Meadors, Shaw & Meadors, Homer, La., for Citizens Council of Washington Parish, La.

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 the right to vote. Made defendants and charged with conspiring...

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