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In some parts of the state, churches that wanted Head Starts were not allowed to have them if the building was also being used for voter-registration work or any other kind of movement work, unless sponsored by the NAACP, which because of its newly acceptable political status, was increasingly becoming a patronage operation using poverty-program jobs.
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
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