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It is asked, 'Will the vote be of more use to Negroes in the South than it has been in the North?', & 'Will the Freedom Movement continue to be a genuinely protesting voice, or is it likely to peter out once the missing rights have been formally achieved?' These questions are examined in the light of work done in Holmes County, Miss, where the author worked as a Civil Rights worker. Econ & pol'al deprivation are characteristic of the area. Deprived of their pol'al rights, Negroes have no say in decisions about public services, so the standard remains very low. Neither of the 2 Negro secondary Sch's has enough facilities to be accredited by the State Board of Educ a: a HSch. A summary is given of the strategy for change in Miss as envisaged by the federal gov, mainly centered around the winning of pol'al rights & the Poverty Program. The nature of the org's involved in the Civil Rights movement in Miss is described, as well as their methods of operation. It is felt that the outside pol'al imperatives which overlay the local situation in Holmes County are the need to respond to & guide the important federal effort in Miss, & the need to create & maintain pol'al org with a high level of identity of its own, if it is going to make headway against the white power structure. The movement in Holmes County has had great success in creating a pol'al org, which the people of the County participate in & direct themselves. The evidence seems to show that the newly enfranchised Negro vote in Miss will be capable of showing a surprising degree of independence, most noticeable at the local level, in the affairs of the County. However, the sense of the need for change is not yet related, in any specific way, to the underlying trends in the econ life of the county. Programs involving federal subsidy could help to arrest the basic trend towards depop & outmigration. The principle of guaranteed income to small farmers could be accompanied by a program of loans & technical assistance. E. Weiman.

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