Seek to Quash Indictment of Negro Dentist Charged with Encouraging Unqualified Negroes to Attempt to Register as Voters

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November 4, 1964

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Seek to Quash Indictment of Negro Dentist Charged with Encouraging Unqualified Negroes to Attempt to Register as Voters, 1964. edb57e60-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/cc6bb34e-c9e0-4967-b692-4e0215816e86/seek-to-quash-indictment-of-negro-dentist-charged-with-encouraging-unqualified-negroes-to-attempt-to-register-as-voters. Accessed August 19, 2025.

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    N. A. A.C. P. Lacan Derense AND EnucaTionat FUno, INe. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York 19, N. Y. 

JUpsoNn 6-8397 

November 4, 1964 

MEMORANDUM 

TO: NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS 

FROM: NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, Inc. 

PER: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public Information 

SUBJECT: Negro Voting in North Carolina 

A hearing to quash an indictment against Charlotte Dentist, 

Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins will be handled by NAACP Legal Defense 

Fund attorney J. LeVonne Chambers of Charlotte Wednesday 

November 4th in Superior Court of Mecklenburg County. Dr. Hawkins 

is charged with placing Negroes on registration lists who were 

unqualified due to their alleged inability to pass a literacy test, 

The Legal Defense Fund will argue that the North Carolina 

laws being cited are vague and do not apply to this situation; 

that Dr. Hawkins' prosecution is unconstitutional in that it 

infringes on his right to encourage Negroes to register and vote; 

and that the procedure of calling on the homes of Negroes who 

have registered, to further check their qualifications, is a form 

of intimidation. 

Attorney Chambers may be reached at 704-375-1764, 

Contributions are deductible for U. S. Income Tax Purposes

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