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HAMER v. ELY

No. 25610.

410 F.2d 152 (1969)

Mrs. Fannie Lou HAMER et al., Appellants, v. Sam J. ELY, Jr., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin E. Smith, New Orleans, La., Morton Stavis, Dennis J. Roberts, George Logan, III, Harriet Van Tassel, Newark, N. J., Alvin J. Bronstein, L. H. Rosenthal, Jackson, Miss., William M. Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, New York City, for appellants; Irving M. King, Cotton, Watt, Jones & King, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

W. Dean Belk, Jr., Indianola, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before WISDOM, THORNBERRY, and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

May 2, 1967, was a historic day in the Town of Sunflower, Mississippi. That day there was an election to choose a mayor and five aldermen.1 For most of the Negro electors, it was the first time in their lives that they could cast a ballot. Moreover, the Negroes, constituting a majority of the 900 residents of Sunflower, had a black candidate for mayor and six black candidates for the five aldermanic positions that...

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