Ney Gore
Ney McKinley Gore Jr. (June 30, 1921 - 1976) was a lawyer and state legislator in Mississippi and a director of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.[1] He represented Quitman County in the Mississippi House of Representatives.[2][3][4]
He was director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1956 and 1957.[5] He wrote to U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen who served on the U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee on civil rights urging him to visit Mississippi.[6]
He married and had son Lee Gore, a lawyer, and Ney M. Gore III, a doctor.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "MS Digital Archives". MS Digital Archives.
- ^ "Gore, Ney M. - Civil Rights Digital Library". crdl.usg.edu.
- ^ Mississippi (September 18, 1976). "Acts Passed at the ... Session of the ... General Assembly of the State of Mississippi" – via Google Books.
- ^ State, Mississippi Secretary of (September 18, 1968). "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". Secretary of State. – via Google Books.
- ^ "MS Digital Archives".
- ^ Irons, Jenny (May 14, 2010). Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1687-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Obituaries in Memphis, TN | the Commercial Appeal".
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