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Mississippi Advisory Committee project: how Laurel, Mississippi shares its revenue

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Identifier	tgc-go063
Title	Mississippi Advisory Committee project: how Laurel, Mississippi shares its revenue
Description	From the George A. Owens Papers. This proposal outlines plans by the Mississippi Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate and document revenue sharing in Laurel, Miss., a town in which the at-large election structure keeps blacks from being elected to public office. The study will take the form of videotaped interviews with Laurel residents and officials, and will be shown on public television.
Creator	United States Commission on Civil Rights. Mississippi Advisory Committee.
Date	1979
Coverage (time period)	1970s
Subject	Election districts. Elections. Finance, Public. Laurel (Miss.) Municipal government. Race relations. Revenue sharing.
Mississippi county	Jones County (Miss.)
Geographic location	Laurel (Miss.)
Resource type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of a 4-page document.
Language	English
Publisher	Mississippi Digital Library. (electronic version) Tougaloo College. (electronic version)
Contributors	Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Rights	This item may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Contributing institution	Tougaloo College Archives, L. Zenobia Coleman Library, Tougaloo College.
Collection	George A. Owens Papers.
Source	Box 4 Folder 3
Digital repository	Mississippi Digital Library.
Digital collection	Tougaloo College.

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