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 via Google Books.
  7. "Obituaries in Memphis, TN | the Commercial Appeal".


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