Winnice P. Clement

Winnice P. Clement (August 4, 1899 – August 1985) was an American clerk. She was the Webster Parish Registrar of Voters in Minden, Louisiana for nearly 26 years, beginning in 1940. During her tenure, she was targeted for removal by white supremacist organizations committed to keeping African Americans from voting. Despite their efforts, she persisted in office until 1966, after the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana.

In 1956, a pro-segregation White Citizens' Council took actions to remove African American voters from the registration rolls, after African American voter registration increased from zero when she took office to nearly 2,000. It had been customary to register white applicants without a test of their understanding of the Constitution if they seemed literate, and Clement had applied the same standard to African American applicants. The proposed legislation also required a court order to remove voters from the registration rolls. and involved in years of litigation that included a 1963 injunction against the use of the test,