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48: 371:, the Mississippi voting registration procedure in 1963 required Mississippians to fill out a 21-question registration form and to answer, to the satisfaction of the white registrars, a question on the interpretation of any one of the 285 sections of the state's constitution. As a result, African-Americans made up a large portion of the voting-age population yet only a small fraction of them were registered; in 3132: 406:
Beginning on November 2, polling stations set up in barber shops, churches, drug stores in black neighborhoods and began accepting ballots. When polling concluded on November 4, 78,869 ballots had been submitted by blacks across Mississippi, four times the number of blacks registered to vote.
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for lieutenant governor. It was the first black-white integrated ticket for state leadership of Mississippi since
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Sinsheimer, Joseph A. (1989). "The Freedom Vote of 1963: New Strategies of Racial Protest in Mississippi".
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The Freedom Vote accomplished four goals: It protested the exclusion of blacks by the
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vol. 4, no. 4, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, November 11, 1963,
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On October 6, 1963, a convention at the Masonic Temple in Jackson nominated
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The Civil Rights Revolution: Events and Leaders, 1955–1968
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among African Americans. The effort was organized by the
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Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
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African American founding fathers of the United States
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Disenfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi
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Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
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Index

1963 Freedom Ballot
Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Summer
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Civil Rights Movement
Mississippi
Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Freedom Vote
Freedom Summer
March Against Fear
Meredith v. Fair
Ole Miss riot
Murder of George W. Lee
Murder of Lamar Smith
Murder of Emmett Till
Biloxi wade-ins
Biloxi sit-ins
Starkville sit-ins
Prayer Pilgrimage Freedom Ride
McComb Freedom Rides
Mississippi Freedom Rides
Murder of Herbert Lee
Burglund High School student walkout
Murder of Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Murder of Louis Allen

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