Smith--Victoria Gray, et al., v. Paul Johnson, 1964-1966 (Benjamin E. Smith papers, 1955-1967; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 513, Box 2, Folder 8)
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Smith, Benjamin Eugene
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A 1966 appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, originally brought by Victoria Jackson Gray in 1964, regarding Mississippi laws that discriminated against would-be black voters and on the selective enforcement of the law on obstruction of sidewalks.
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- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926 2006
- Arrest
- Burkett, Mrs
- Cameron, John Earl
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Clayton, Claude F
- Clergy
- Coleman, James P
- Courthouses
- Cox, Harold
- Dombrowski, James A
- Dukes, James K
- Estes, Jan J
- Finch, James
- Freedom Day
- Gray, Bud
- Johnson, Paul B., 1916 1985
- Kinoy, Arthur
- Kunstler, William
- Mehl, John
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Mize, Sidney C
- National Council Of The Churches Of Christ In The United States Of America
- Peacock, Willy
- Police
- Rives, Richard T
- Robertson, William T
- Rosenthal, L. H
- Sheriffs
- Smith, Benjamin Eugene
- Stavis, Morton
- United States
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Van Tassel, Harriet
- Voter Registration
- Wallace, Ceda
- Walzer, Bruce C
- Wells, Will S
- Whites
- Wulf, Melvin L