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{{cquote|In my law practice since 1929, I have been particularly interested in defending cases of Negros who were subject to discrimination and oppression. I handled at trial and in the Supreme Court the Chavis and Cromwell cases, which resulted in permitting Negros to register and vote in the Democratic primary. I defended Will Lewis in the recent case in which indictment for rape was quashed because his race was systematically excluded from the grand jury.<ref name="progressive">Sarah Hart Brown. "Pensacola Progressive: John Moreno Coe and the Campaign of 1948." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Volume 68, Number 1, July 1989.</ref>}}
Coe was a member of the [[ACLU]], president in the 1950s of the National Lawyers Guild, and state chairman of [[Wikipedia:Henry A. Wallace|Henry A. Wallace]]'s [[1948]] [[Wikipedia:Progressive Party (United States, 1948)|Progressive Party]] campaign. In [[1950]], the [[Kiwanis Club]], of which Coe had been a 25-year member and state officer, "tried me for impure thoughts and expelled me therefrom," likely due to his opposition to the [[Korean War]].<ref name="progressive"/>
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