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 reasons to wit: Incompetency, strong prejudices, superstitiousness, and general unfitness in regard to equity It happens frequently they are drawn and serve on juries in what we term here United States courts"

County No. 4, 1,500 white people, 8,800 Negroes: "Negroes do not serve on the juries in this county None of the Negroes in this county have ever been placed in such [jury] boxes."

County No. 5, 4,000 white people, 9,000 Negroes: "We do not have Negroes as jurors; we tried them and found them incompetent and otherwise disqualified."

County No. 6, 7,000 white people, 11,000 Negroes: "No Negroes serve on the jury in this county."

County No. 7, 4,800 white people, 5,000 Negroes: "Not a blooming one [Negro juror], and not likely to be."

County No. 8, 2,000 white people, 5,800 Negroes: "There are no Negro jurors in this county."

County No. 9, 6,000 white people, 7,000 Negroes: "I have lived here all my life and do not know that there has been any Negro who has served on the jury in this county. I am quite sure there has been none for the past 20 or 30 years."

County No. 10, 2,500 white people, 4,000 Negroes: " There has never been a Negro juror to serve in this country nor any other county surrounding this to my knowledge. We revise our jury-boxes biennially, and never have yet put a Negro's name on the list of jurors. And I think this is the practice all over the State. I am satisfied if one should be put on any jury that the white men on would flatly refuse to serve at all"

County No. 11, 5,000 white people, 6,000 Negroes: