Ney Gore

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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

  1. ↑ "MS Digital Archives". MS Digital Archives.
  2. ↑ "Gore, Ney M. - Civil Rights Digital Library". crdl.usg.edu.
  3. ↑ Mississippi (September 18, 1976). "Acts Passed at the ... Session of the ... General Assembly of the State of Mississippi" – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ State, Mississippi Secretary of (September 18, 1968). "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". Secretary of State. – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "MS Digital Archives".
  6. ↑ Irons, Jenny (May 14, 2010). Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN   978-0-8265-1687-9 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "Obituaries in Memphis, TN | the Commercial Appeal". 11 April 2020.


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