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' for the purpose of deterring their recistering te vote strike at the integrity of the federal political vrocess. The right to vote in We hold that the defendants' acts of economic coercion, intimi- dation, an? vinlence directed at Neqro citizens in Washington Parish . = federal elections, a privilege of national citizenship secured by the United States Constitution, includes he right to register to vote. The right to register to vote includes the xight to be free from public or private interference with activities rationally related ta registering and to encouraging others to register. (2) The Civil Richts Act of 1964: Public Accommodation. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionaiity of Titie ii as at applies to motels and restaurants. Atlanta Motel v. United States, - 1964, 379 U.S. 241, 85 S. Ct. 348, 13 L.Ed, 2a 258; Katzenbach v. Metiung, 1964. 379 U.S. 294, B5 S. Ct. 377, 13 L.Ed, 2d 290. The defendants are left, therefore, only with the contention er a ae A on that the Act, for reasons not articuiatea, snould i persons. The defendants are really arguing against the judgment of congress in selecting injunctive ryelie=S against private persons a5. one method of enforcing congressional policy. Once it is conceded, has the powex, under the commerce clause, to forbid that Congress . Te } : discriminetion in public places, there is little doubt-that injunctive relief agzinst any person seeking to frustrate the statutory objactive—_ is approp: iate. In ttis Circuit, relying on In re Debs, 1895, 158 U.S. 564, 15 3. Ct. 900, 39 BL. EA. 1092, the courts have held that when a private pi rsons purden commerce to the detriment of the national : 3 { _intarest, the Nation may enjoin such persons even without enabling : . ! Jecislaticn. . On two occasions courts have issued ' ee, a0