The DETOURIST
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The Power of Paper
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The Power of Paper

Pete Candler
Jan 08, 2020
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In Taylor County, Georgia, in 1946, an African-American man voted in a Democratic primary for the first time. The next day, he was murdered. The episode prompted the future leader of America's Civil Rights Movement to write his first publication.

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