GILMORE v. GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXEC. COM.

No. 27935.

435 F.2d 487 (1970)

Thomas E. GILMORE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar W. Adams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Norman C. Amaker, Jack Greenberg, James N. Finney, Fred L. Wallace, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Perry Hubbard, Hubbard & Waldrop, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, DYER and CLARK, Circuit Judge:


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama which denied relief to the plaintiffs-appellants, who claimed that the denial to black illiterates of the right to use sample ballots at the polling places in a democratic primary election was a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; that the failure to purge the voting list resulted in there being more white registered voters eligible to vote than...

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