Gene Talmadge's campaign to be governor of Georgia had ripped the thin gauze of decency from the body of his state. Last week the nation saw the running sores beneath it.
In Rupert District of South Georgia's Taylor County, Macie Snipes was the only Negro to vote. The day after election four white men called him out from supper. Macie Snipes staggered back into the house with blood gushing from the bullet wounds in his belly. A coroner's jury solemnly reported that he had been killed by one of his visitors in self...
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