isaiah nixon's wife stood on the porch and yelled fall, isaiah, fall! and he wouldn't, or he couldn't. he falls to the ground, ultimately, just the gravity of his dead weight. weeks from just having given birth to their youngest child. sally drags him up into the farm house, put him to bed and we know all of this from two primary sources. one is his daughter, dorothy. she was six years old at the time and saw it all, we found her. i brought her to every commit with our students -- emory to meet with our students. she is wonderful, mesmerizing. she is very honest about what she doesn't remember. the other source we have is some newspaper clips at the time. there is this. dover carter -- after he is beaten up, he gets care and goes to the hospital where isaiah nixon is. he had to go to counties away -- two counties away. lawrence county, that was the nearest hospital that would s.cept black he hears the whole story from isaiah nixon about what happened. he gets in his car and drives to the atlanta fbi office and talks and talks and tells him everything he

let's go back to isaiah nixon. here isstudents do, their textbook, 234 pages of documents that we have gotten through the fbi freedom of information act request. it is a lot of federal memos, a lot of back-and-forth, you develop a narrative and what you find out -- a lot more from here than you did from the news clips at the time -- it wasn't that widely covered -- what happens in 1948 when he is voting in the governor's race. the naacp in montgomery county was only two years old. it was growing there, one record said there was 84 black members of the naacp in a county of 3000 people total. that was after one year, that was pretty helpful for them. i have decided that they will be supporting herman -- hermann talmadge is running against them. thompson.in they decided to gather at the polling place, as they are gathered, a group of black men on that morning, the sher riff elect sees them over. john harris had won them over. and john harris goes back to this gaggle of black men waiting to go to vote. the black men sa

nixon whoes isaiah was killed after voting. this symposium is hosted by the university of the south in tennessee. this is about 90 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. good morning again and thank you for joining our second session today.