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. “SN _in any attempted threats, intimidations, or coercion of any *# i ~. Enature, vhether economic or otherwise“. United States v. Deal, W.l.La. 1961, 6 Race Rel. L. Rep. 474. Tia parallel between the defendants’ intimidation by ! .and economic coercion in Beatty/ in Deal, and the defendants’ boycott ind other activities in this case is tom patent rr _ to be spelled out. Beatty and Deal also illustrate a ar on 4 : . 5 ( 5 "+ principle: of enormous importance in the enforcement of civil / . rights: acts otherwise lawful may become unlawful and be enjoined under Section 1971, if the purpose and effect of the acts is to interfere with the right to vote. In United States v. Board of Education of Greene County, Mississippi, 1964, 332 F. 24 40, the Fifth Circuit _ affirmed the holding below that the government failed to prove that the alleged intimidation was for the purpose of interfering with the right to vote. But, as Judge Tuttle explained in United States v. Bruce (not yet re= the Greene County case assumed: "Whereas a school board might, under the circumstances present in wnat case, have legally failed to renew a teacher's con+ tract for any reason or fcr no reason at all, if it in fact declined to renew the : [teacher's] certificate as a means of / coercing or intimidating the teacher as - * ~ . . to her right to vote, such conduct would be prohibited under the Act." In United States v. Bruce twenty-eight white persons in Wilcox County, Alabama, notified Lonnie Brown, a Negro in- ‘surance collector, to stay off land owned or controlled by then. ee a ‘ ~ eee WT wea