Maurice L. Malone was a lawyer, automobile dealer, state legislator in Mississippi and served as director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a segregationist state agency that targeted civil rights activists, produced propaganda materials, and schemed to undermine the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education.[1][2][3] He represented George County. He lived in Lucedale. He served as president of Perkinston Junior College's board of trustees. He succeeded Ney Gore as director of the Sovereignty Commission.[1] He ran for re-election as a state representative.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Malone, Maurice L. - Civil Rights Digital Library". crdl.usg.edu.
  2. ↑ "MS Digital Archives". MS Digital Archives.
  3. ↑ Robert E. Luckett Jr. (2015). Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement. University Press of Mississippi. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-4968-0270-5.
  4. ↑ "MS Digital Archives". MS Digital Archives.
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