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UNITED STATES v. McLEOD

Nos. 21475, 21477.

385 F.2d 734 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Blanchard McLEOD et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. DALLAS COUNTY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 16, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold H. Greene, John Doar, David L. Norman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for appellant.

T. G. Gayle, J. E. Wilkinson, Jr., Selma, Ala., Wm. McLean Pitts, Selma, Ala., Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

Before WOODBURY, WISDOM and BELL, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

These cases are the product of the racial unrest in 1963 in Dallas County, Alabama, of which Selma is the county seat. "Yet Selma was different from the usual clash between police in the South and protesting groups of Negroes and civil rights workers. For out of Selma grew the Voting Rights of 1965."1

The Dallas County Voters League was organized to encourage local Negroes to register and vote. Early in 1963...

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