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| | TIME.com: Part of the Way -- Mar. 8, 1968 -- Page 1 |
 | | Last week, in a special election conducted to fill the congressional seat that was vacated by racist Governor John Bell Williams, Evers polled 33,713 of 114,767 votes in a race against six white conservative candidates. |
 | | Although Evers led all of his opponents and would like to become his state's first Negro in Congress since Reconstruction, the twelve-county Third District in southwest Mississippi is roughly 55% white; registered Negro voters, moreover, are outnumbered by about 125,000 to 70,000 at the polls. |
 | | Evers knows he must gain substantial white support and promises: "We're going to represent all of our people, fl and white, 'cause we're all God's children." But the prospect is that whites, who scattered their votes in last week's election, will coalesce to defeat Evers in the runoff. |
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