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16. Grave of Georgia man killed in 1948 for voting

... Dorothy Nixon Williams rested her hand on a rough concrete headstone etched with the word “Father,” bent to touch the concrete slab beneath it, then wept in the arms of her son.

“Father.” Her father, Isaiah Nixon, an African American man who had dared to vote in the 1948 Democratic Primary in Montgomery County, Georgia, only the second held since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all-white primaries unconstitutional. Her father, who was gunned down by two white men that evening on the front porch of her home, when she was just six years old ...

Isaiah Nixon was shot on Sept. 8, 1948 and died two days later in a hospital in neighboring Laurens County. The white brothers who killed him, Jim A. Johnson and Johnnie Johnson, were arrested and charged with murder and accessory to murder ... but Jim Johnson was easily acquitted by the all-white jury, and charges against his brother were dropped ...

http://undergraduatestories.aau.edu/story/emory-students-find-long-lost-grave-of-georgia-man-killed-for-voting-in-1948/