In the 1950s Wroten consistently spoke and voted against the Mississippi legislature's maneuvers to divert state monies to the Citizens' Councils. Out of 122 representatives, only he and Karl Wiesenburg of Pascagoula voted nay in Governor Ross Barnett's special session called to stop James Meredith from enrolling at the University of Mississippi, which saw the Ole Miss riot of 1962. He was defeated in his bid for re-election the next year. He went on to be elected chairman of the Washington County Democratic Executive Committee, a racially integrated political committee which announced its pro-integration platform at the 1968 Mississippi State Democratic convention. At this time Wroten's party affiliation was Loyalist Democrat. He and a delegation of the executive committee went to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago,and in a credentials fight we succeeded in prevailing over the old guard conservative delegation composed of the governor and others from Mississippi, and we were the ones who were seated. It was a racially inclusive delegation from Mississippi that was seated at Chicago in 1968. I was a member of that group.