Williams v. McCulley

HUNTER, District Judge.

This suit for declaratory judgment, damages and injunctive relief was brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by Sherman Williams and four other Negroes, all residents of Rapides Parish, Louisiana. This action is brought as a class action. Plaintiffs allege that registration is a prerequisite of the right of a citizen to vote in any election- — -federal, state or local. The contention is that plaintiffs possessed all of the qualifications and have none of the disqualifications to register as electors, but that the defendant…