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FEDERAL BUREAU OF nvestfOx oN FD-302 (Rev. 1-25-60) e ~ residence of E. W. Es yka, Mississippi, who is the President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Chapter, Amite County, Mississippi. express purpose of attendin£ the funera ALLEN; who had been shot and killed on the evening of January 31, 1964 at his residence, Liberty, Mississippi, and to see if he could not: determine through local contacts the reason why ALLEN had been killed. BR 2222220: that thus far he had developed no information as to the basis for the killing of ALLEN, Further, that he had obtained no information that ALLEN's death had been as a result of voter registration activites on the part of ALLEN, : oe Cc \p/ -) GD 01: it was his understanding that in June, (oS 1962, ALLEN had gone to the Amite County Courthouse, Liberty, Mississippi, with other Negroes to file an application to vote in Amite County. However, Since there were 80 many Negroes in line awaiting their turn to register, ALLEN did not get into the courthouse to file his application. said he did not know if ALLEN ever_retyrned to the courthouse to attempt to register. aaa cs Bay that he knew ALLEN was not a registered voter of Amite County at the time of his death. - ommented that he had talked with ALLEN's wife, ELIZASB » and on February 2, 1964 and neither of them had any Ormation indicating the death of ALLEN was as a result of any voter registration activity on the part of ALLEN. Further, that neither of these _ persons had any information as to who had killed ALLEN. said he learned from Mrs. ALLEN that the ALLEN family was planning to leave Liberty, Mississippi on February 1, 1964 for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where ALLEN 4ntended to secure employment as a bulldozer operator. On _2/2/64——_et _Osyks,—Mississippi File # NO 44-2100 by ate dictated 2/4/64 = ss Thie document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It de the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and ite contenta are not to be Alateibuted outside your agency. :