7/20 Election in Americus, Georgia (Telegram)

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(See attached list) July 30, 1965

NAACP Leral Defense and Educational Fund lawyers today will seek
a federal court order to restrain election officials from tampering with
or destroying ballots cast in a July 20 election for justice of the peace
in Americus, Ga.

The attorneys want Judge William A. Bootle, chief judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of georgia, to order the
ballots preserved pending outcome of a suit to invalidate the election.

A suit to invalidate the election, enjoin the declared winner
from taking office and order a new election was filed Wednesday in
Judge Bootle's court.

Legal Defense Fund lawyers have also filed suit to prohibit
discriminatory practices in future elections and to halt the prosecution
of a Negro justice of the peace candidate and three of her campaign
workers who are charged with blocking the entrance to a polling places

The candidate, Mrs. Mary Kate Bell, and three other women, were He:
arrested when they refused to move from a "white women only" waiting
line at the polling place.

The Legal Defense Fund suit will be heard with a similar suit:
filed by U.S. Justice Department lawyers.

For further information contact Atty. C. B. King, Albany, Ga.,
(912) HE 2-9879 or Atty. Thomas Jackson, Macon, Ga., 1912) SH 2-7441.

Edwin K. Wiley s
Public Information Assistant
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc.

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