Don Hamer v. George Musselwhite, Individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Lexington, Miss.

BELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Negro residents of the City of Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi, sought declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants, city officials and officials of Holmes County, Mississippi, contending that a 1961 city ordinance which prohibited parades without permission of the mayor and marshal of Lexington was unconstitutional. Their interest in parading was in connection with voter registration activity. The ordinance was thereafter repealed on the advice of the city attorney that it was unconstitutional. See King v. City of Clarksdale, Miss. S.Ct., 1966,…