VOTER REGISTRATION IN MISSISSIPPI Mimeographed circular titl

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VOTER REGISTRATION IN MISSISSIPPI. Mimeographed circular titled "Instructions Re: Unregistered Negro Applicants to Vote in Democratic Primary." Two long folio sheets, 14 x 8-1/2 inches, corners stapled, creases where folded; ink redaction to top of second page; printing faded, but legible in spots. Np, [Greenwood, MS], 1963

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An extraordinary and unrecorded relic of the early days of voter registration in Mississippi, issued by the Le Flore County Mississippi Democratic Committee. Undated but very likely from the turbulent election year of 1963, when Le Flore County was the epicenter of SNCC's voter registration drive in Mississippi. The circular mentions the cities of Greenwood and Itta Bena specifically, and gives poll workers explicit instructions on how to discourage unregistered voters from attempting to register or cast a ballot, stipulating that "We must be careful to follow the law so that we will be able to successfully defend any suit that they may get the Attorney General of the U.S. to bring."