Ney Gore Explained

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]

Notes and References

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

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