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WARE v. NICHOLS

No. GC6511.

266 F.Supp. 564 (1967)

William WARE et al., Plaintiffs, v. M. L. NICHOLS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

February 8, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carsie A. Hall, Jack H. Young, R. Jess Brown, Jackson, Miss., Henry M. Aronson, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Steve Ralston, Michael Meltsner, Melvyn Zarr, New York City, for plaintiffs.

James T. Bridges, Belzoni, Miss., Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Special Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Mississippi, for defendants.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and CLAYTON, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The eight plaintiffs in this action are Negro citizens residing in Belzoni, Mississippi. They are affiliated with the Council of Federated Organizations as voter registration workers. Each was arrested in October 1964 and charged with the offense of criminal syndicalism, under the Mississippi Criminal Syndicalism Act of June 11, 1964, Mississippi Code Annotated, §§ 2066.5-01 to 2066.5-06 (1964 Supp.).1 In this action...

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