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7 om a 4 The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of Title IZ as it We hold that the defendants' ects of economic coercion, intimi- dation, an? violence directed at Negro citizens in Washington Parish . - ' for the purpese of deterring their registering to vote strike at the integrity 9f the federal political process. The right to vote in federal elections, a privilege of national citizenship secured by the The right to register to vote incledes the right to be free from public or private interference with activities rationally related to reqistering and ta encouraging others to reqister. (2) The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Public Accommodation. applies to motels and restaurants. Atlanta Motel v. United States, . _ 1964, 379 U.S. 241, 85 S, Ct. 348, 13 L.Ed. 2@ 258; Katzenbach v. | Meflung, 1964. 379 U.S. 294, B85 S. Ct. 377, 13 L.Ed. 2a 290. The defendants are left, therefore, only with the contention that the Act, for reasons not articulated, should not reach private persons. The defendants are really arguing against the judgment of Congress in selecting injunc ief against private persons ag . « one method of enforcing congressional policy. Once it ds conceded . that Congress has the power, undez the commerce clause, to forbid oN ee ‘ . diseriminetion in public places, there is little doubt-that injunetive relief agzinst any person seeking to frustrate the statutory objective-——_ is appropiiate. - > In ttis Circuit, relying on In re Debs, 1895, 158 U.S, 564, 15 3. ct. 900, 39 L. BA, 1092, the courts have held that when private persons purden commerce to the detriment of the national . P a i interest, the Wation may enjoin such persons even without enabling \ _Jecislaticn. On two occasions courts have issued | ai ee,