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Jun-11-98 01:25 ky alliance 5027788130 P.O2

Briefing Paper on the Attacks on African American Voters in the Alabama Black Belt

Prepared for Meeting with U.S Attorney General Janet Reno June 11, 1998

Members of Delegation: Julian Bond, Chair, National Board, NAACP Elaine Joens, Executive Director Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. Marthing Luther King III, PResident, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) State Sen. Hank Sanders, Selma, AL. President, Alabama New South Coalition Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Co-Chair, Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice (SOC) John Zippen, Co-Chair, Alabama Black Belt Defense Committee & Co-Publisher, Greene Country, AL. Democrat

Accompanied by: U.S. Rep. John Conyers, MI U.S. Rep. Earl Hillard, AL, First Vice Chiar, Congressional Black Caucus U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, CA, Chair, Congressional Black Caucus