The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-04-21

East Side
taxes in Talaachie County (here Emmett Till murdered
F Many afraid register because OF tear OF loss OF
iob credit and violence
II taught school in Taahatche County, taught there for
bout II years. One night was stopped had family in the Car
and inundated for exactly hour and half About may
be year after that received letter from the County Supern
tendent that my services would be required for the coming
year."
Grafton R. Gray Charleston, Miss.
I'VE are given educational test which not known to be
given any member Of the white in state This test is
really not test but Of trial for Negroes applying for
registration The first step this trial for registration she 1.-THE
REGISTRAR gives you copy Of the Constitution to read from and
you begin reading until she says STOP and ask her did you
pass and she says You msponoUnced word Everything has
to be perfect in order to pass"
= Mrs. Louise Lasster seaboard, NC.
I'VE have not had single Negro registered in Haywood
County, Ten Reconstruction Days When registered our
charter las Negro Civic and Welfare League FS in the court
house, white took his stick and beat Of members
who pick up the charter to the extent that he had to re-
ceve stitches on his face
"0ther members Of organization made to move =
those who tenant farmers Others fired outright lost
my position as principal in the elementary school, We have
had all kinds Of threats Most of have been fined for some
other We have been denied loans from banks and
most Of te business places will not deal with members any
a. is j.
Back in 1910 Of the citizens ynched because he
wanted to vote The FB Investigated this and they investigated
the investigation. Nothing was DONE" 6s
= Curry P Boyd, Haywood County, Tennessee.
1.-THE FBl came there while picking COTTON Ito nves
fiqae his complaint that he had been allowed to vote though
registered iFs They told 90 and tell the Sheriff every
thing know that that the thing to do and so that night
received threatening telephone CALL From that day to this
wife and family and myself threatened This B who
came out to investigate he native Of Fayee County, He
knew my father and before him my grandfather and went
back and talked with legal counsel and wrote to Hoover
here Washington They another investigator out
the hot dog stand That is where was ---
Now the teachers the county scared to register They
are even scared talk the street. When they me
coming they the other way and many farmers harmed TO-
day on to be first class citizens They are
making US by the hundreds When up to register
the landlord would walk up and down any Of his tenants
were line When they register the Sheriff gets the names
and calls the landlord the landlord would make him that
night was threatened, If you keep with that voting ISSUE
YOU will come up with neckte around your neck
70 Have you ever voted?
a. never voted in my life"
= John McFerren, Fayette County Tenn.
Now While haven't seen the Civil Rights Report used by
Senator DouoIas I'm inclined agree with the four dxiecrat
hosemen that the report mistaken, but mistaken in that
didn't beon to reveal the and degree of pressure used to
keep Neoroe citizens the South from exercising their Constu
tona right TO vote.
i border capture Villa.
h&IT8TS The sacred Constitution of
USA spells and