Jan 8, 2020 • 8M

The Power of Paper

 
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Pete Candler
The beauty, mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road.
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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.