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oo — ya ee! ‘were registered. The Court held that the trial court erred in private persons, including the defendants impleaded in this \. ydght to register as well as interfering with the right to ~ - ; : As . resulc Brown could not reach many of his policy-holders. Bron had ‘seen active in urging his Negro neighbors and friends * . : ae : to segieter to vote in Wilcox County, a county where no Negros ae @isnissins the complaint: “The background allecgetions make a strong . case upon which the trial court could infer the correctness o2 the conclusionary allegations that these cefendants did in fact ‘intimidate and coerce’ the Negro citizens of Wilcox County, through the person of Lonnie Brown, for the purpose . of interfering with their right to vote, °73 We hold that the Civil Rights Act of 1957 applies to case. We hold that the Act applies to interfering with the vote; that the Act protects Negro citizens-against the coercion, intimidation, and violence the defendants admitted roved to have committed in this case. nF wera ol Welt (2) The Civil Rights Act af 1964. The '64 Act creates new categories of civil rights and extends the authority of the Attorney General to protect such rights by a civil suit for injunctive relief against any perscn, public or private. - 26 -