Atlanta Daily World

Others Join In Hearings For The Voteless

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three major organizations here have joined as sponsors of mock hearing at which voteless Negroes from the South will testify on January 31. A leading Negro woman from Washington was added to the list of those who will be heard.
The new sponsors are the Baptist Ministers Conference of Washington and Vicinity; the Methodist Ministers Union of Washington and Vicinity; and the Elks Civil Liberties League of Washington, D. C. Seven of the leading integration groups in the South had previously announced sponsorship of the event.
Negroes denied the right to vote in the South will tell their stories to an unofficial Volunteer Civil Rights Commission headed by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. The statements will be recorded and presented to Congress in an effort to influence passage of civil rights legislation.
Special reports on District of Columbia will be made by Mrs. Jewell Mazique and the Rev. E. Franklin Jackson, Washington civil rights leaders. Mrs. Mazique, the wife of a prominent physician, is a columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American and specialist on African affairs for the Elks Civil Liberties League.