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Dorothy Nixon Williams visiting the grave of her father, more than 67 years after his murder.
In 1948, Isiah Nixon of Montgomery County, Georgia, cast a vote in the Democratic primary election. Just four years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that White-only primary elections were unconstitutional. But when the federal government stepped in to try to open up the democratic process to African Americans in the South, other means were used to enforce the rules of...