The Institute for Common Power

“Now the political situation in Mississippi has been a corrupt politician paradise or utopia, which I will explain after I shall have given a few statistics. First of all, Mississippi has a population, according to the last U.S. census, of 2,178,914, of which 986,707 are Negroes and 1,188,429 are whites. There are approximately 400,000 voters in Mississippi, and of that total some 22,000 or less are Negroes. There are 13 counties in Mississippi where there are no Negro registered voters at all. Included in this number are persons of the Negro group with A.B., B.S., M.A. degrees who are teaching government, civics, and courses necessary to the development of the total individual, but even they are denied the right to vote. There are 12 more counties with less than 10 registered voters; 29 counties with less than 100 Negro voters; 16 counties with less than 500 voters ; 5 counties with more than 500, but less than 1000 voters; and 7 counties with more than 1000 but less than 5000 voters.
I am reminded here of one of the Negro schools in the Mississippi Delta where the superintendent called in the instructor in social science and told him to skip over the chapter in government which dealt with voting.”
Medgar Evers

Join Institute Director, Dr. Terry Anne Scott, for a lecture this Thursday!
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