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HAMER v. CAMPBELL

No. 22552.

358 F.2d 215 (1966)

Mrs. Fannie Lou HAMER et al., Appellants, v. Cecil C. CAMPBELL, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Sunflower County, Mississippi, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., Bruce Waltzer, New Orleans, La., Martin R. Bradley, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., Arthur Kinoy, New York City, L. H. Rosenthal, Jackson, Miss., for appellants.

Will S. Wells, William Allain, Asst. Attys. Gen., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Oscar B. Townsend, Forrest G. Cooper, Indianola, Miss., P. J. Townsend, Jr., Drew, Miss., Alfred A. Levingston, Cleveland, Miss., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

A Negro citizen, because of a pattern and practice of racial discrimination, has been denied the right to register to vote. After she registers pursuant to a Federal Court order, she will be denied the right to vote in a municipal election because she has failed to pay poll taxes for two preceding years and because she has not registered within the time allowed by state law — a deadline two months prior to the Federal Court order...

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