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[URBAN LEAGUE].
We March for Effective Civil Rights Laws NOW!
Large white placard, 28 x 21
3
⁄
4
inches, boldly lettered in red; holes where attached to a stick
to be carried in the march.
Local 1129 AFL CIO, [Washington, 1963]
[800/1,200]
One of the many signs carried on 28 August, 1963. Signs like this were gotten together by different
contingents of marchers, in this case union members from the local AFL-CIO.
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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
[1,000/1,500]
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.”
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