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can As .. resul: Brown could not reach many of his policy-holders. Bron had ‘2een active in urging his Negro neighbors and friends NS te segister to vote in Wilcox County, a county where no Negros ‘wera registered. The Court held that the trial court erred in disnissinz the complaint: "The background allegations make a strong Gase upon which the trial court could infer the correctness of the conclusionary allegations that these cefendants did in fact ‘intimidate and coerce' the Negro eitizens of Wilcox County, through the person of Lonnie Brown, for the purpose : of interfering with their right to vote. "77 We hold that the Civil Rights Act of 1957 applies to private persons, including the defendants impleaded in this case. We hold that the Act applies to interfering with the ‘ yight to register as well as interfering with the right to vote; that the Act protects Negro citizens .against the coercion, intimidation, and violence the defendants admitted or were proved to have committed in this case. i¢} Phe Civil Rights Act _o: 1964. The '64 Act creates new categories of civil rights and extends the authority of the Attorney General te protect such rights by a civil suit for injunctive relief against any persca, public or private. ae