Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

How Mae Lucky was able to purge over 3,000 Black voters off Ouachita voter's registration.

Make it legal...pass a law! That’s how it was done in 1956, and that is the way it is done today. All you need is a political consensus to write an amendment and then vote it into law. It doesn’t matter if it is morally or socially correct…it just has to be law. Page 9 of proposed decree document 2548, United States vs. State of Louisiana et.al, section 8.4 reads, “In early 1956 state officials and private White citizens launched an all-out program to maintain racial segregation in Louisiana....