Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases

| By Sarah Tiffany | As Isaiah Nixon stared down the barrel of Jim A. Johnson’s gun, his wife yelled, “Fall,

| By Mia Kaminsky | Maceo Snipes was a proud veteran who had recently returned home to Taylor County, Georgia, after

|By Ashley Bianco| In 1948, thirty miles off U.S. Highway One in the small town of Alston, GA, Alexander Rivera, Jr.,

| By Caroline Wilkerson | Sallie Nixon saw it all. She had been at home that morning when Isaiah left to

On September 8, 1948, Dover Carter and Isaiah Nixon, two black men from the small town of Alston, Georgia, went

| By Emily Gaines | Fall, 2015 “He exercised his American right of voting. This type of intimidation aimed at preventing other

| By Ellie Studdard | Fall, 2015 On September 13, 1948, the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington, D.C., received a

| By Hank Klibanoff | The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project opened its fall 2015 semester with C-SPAN in the

| By Caela Abrams | As the Georgia sun set on September 8, 1948, twenty-five year old Sallie Nixon was at

Isaiah Nixon was shot in his front yard in front of his wife and six children in Alston, Montgomery County,

| By Sonam Vashi | Four days before Christmas in 1957, on a Saturday morning, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and

| By Isabel Hughes, Ross Merlin and Nitin Aradhya | On Sunday, December 22, 1957, residents of the bustling West Georgia city

Hosie Miller, a farmer in Baker County, was shot in the back by a neighboring farmer, Cal Hall, Jr. Some

On the morning of December 5, 1956, B.T. Dukes, a 71-year-old white retired farmer from Molena, Georgia, a small farming

| By Taylor Madgett | “They Done Killed A.C.”: The Death of Justice in Macon On October 13, 1962, at around 9:30 p.m., seventeen-year-old A.C.

On July 11, 1964, nine days after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act, Lt. Col.

Weeks of tension between police and residents of the Perry Homes housing project in northwest Atlanta peaked on September 13,

| By Erica Sterling | A Man whose Death Inspired the Teenager who Led the Movement Maceo Snipes must have felt a

Dr. Thomas H. Brewer was Columbus's most prominent civil rights activist and the founder of the city's NAACP chapter. He

| By Mary Claire Kelly |  Little more than a month after he brutally and fatally beat James Brazier, Police Officer

Mattie Green, a 32-year-old mother of six, died from the impact of a bomb that exploded under her family's home

In a 2010 letter from the FBI to Alphonso Harris's surviving family, an investigation determined that Harris died in an

Police officer Billy Carter shot Ernest Hunter in a physical altercation at the Camden County jail in St. Mary’s on

James Andrew Miller, 19, was shot and killed by John Lo Whitaker, 44, on Aug. 30, 1964, following a confrontation

Willie Joe Sanford's decomposed body was pulled out of Limestone Creek in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, on March 1, 1957, after

The infamous killing of the Malcoms and the Dorseys, two couples, later became known as the "Monroe Massacre" or the

A month before his death on May 21, 1948, Isaac Crawford of Augusta had been arrested for public drunkenness. He

Police Chief James Mitchell Bohannon of Summit, Eamuel County, shot and killed Army Corporal Willie Lee Davis at a juke

Caleb Hill Jr. of Irwinton was pulled from Wilkinson County jail in the middle of the night on May 30,

On Nov. 20, 1948, Robert "Duck" Mallard was driving to his home in Lyons, Toombs County with his wife, son,

| By Nathaniel Meyersohn | On September 6, 1966, hours after Atlanta police shot and seriously wounded a black suspected car

The day Dawson Police Officers Weyman B. Cherry and Randolph McDonald arrested James Brazier, seemingly without warrant, was not anomalous

| By Dania de la Cruz | Only four months into his lifetime appointment as a federal judge in Southwest Georgia

| By Nicole VanderMeer | Deep into the second day of Hattie Bell Brazier’s lawsuit against the law enforcement officers she

| By Christa Nutor | Hattie Brazier was a seamstress, wife and mother of four children who, through a series of violent

| By Rupsha Basu | “Bubba, why don’t you go on and get in the car,” were the words that Hattie

| By Nathaniel Meyersohn & Hannah Coleman | On April 23, 1958, Odell Brazier appeared at the FBI’s field office in

| By Erica Sterling |  In the hands of Reverend Amos O. Holmes was a letter, one that had been passed

| By Ali Chetkof and Scott Schlafer | Dr. Charles Ward arrived at the Terrell County Jail in Dawson, on Sunday,

| By Erika Burgess | Dr. Charles McCuin Ward arrived in the small town of Dawson, Georgia, in 1955 as a

| By Lauren Browning | On Thursday October 29, 1970, the front page of The Dawson News greeted its readers with

| By Taylor Madgett, Sonam Vashi, Sanai Meles, Nelson Adams | The May 15, 1958, edition of The Dawson News reported

| By Lily Weinberg | As 21-year-old Marvin Goshay walked through the streets of Dawson on a hot August day in

| By Jordan Friedman | Irene Gladden sat quietly in her jail cell at Terrell County Jail during the evening of

| By Ami Fields-Meyer | On the night of April 20, 1958, Mary Carolyn Clyde was awake in her cell in

| By Avery C. Suber | After 31-year-old James Brazier left his church that April Sunday and started the ignition of

| By Lucas Buyon | In late 1958 James Brazier walked into the Chevrolet dealership where he worked in Dawson and

James C. Brazier, a husband and father, a 31-year-old striver who worked two and sometimes three jobs, spent most of

In a 2010 letter from the FBI to Alphonso Harris's surviving family, an investigation determined that Harris died in an

Caleb Hill Jr. of Irwinton was pulled from Wilkinson County jail in the middle of the night on May 30,

| By Sonam Vashi | Four days before Christmas in 1957, on a Saturday morning, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and

| By Isabel Hughes, Ross Merlin and Nitin Aradhya | On Sunday, December 22, 1957, residents of the bustling West Georgia city

Police officer Billy Carter shot Ernest Hunter in a physical altercation at the Camden County jail in St. Mary’s on

The infamous killing of the Malcoms and the Dorseys, two couples, later became known as the "Monroe Massacre" or the

Hosie Miller, a farmer in Baker County, was shot in the back by a neighboring farmer, Cal Hall, Jr. Some

| By Nathaniel Meyersohn | On September 6, 1966, hours after Atlanta police shot and seriously wounded a black suspected car

| By Sarah Tiffany | As Isaiah Nixon stared down the barrel of Jim A. Johnson’s gun, his wife yelled, “Fall,

|By Ashley Bianco| In 1948, thirty miles off U.S. Highway One in the small town of Alston, GA, Alexander Rivera, Jr.,

| By Caroline Wilkerson | Sallie Nixon saw it all. She had been at home that morning when Isaiah left to

On September 8, 1948, Dover Carter and Isaiah Nixon, two black men from the small town of Alston, Georgia, went

| By Emily Gaines | Fall, 2015 “He exercised his American right of voting. This type of intimidation aimed at preventing other

| By Ellie Studdard | Fall, 2015 On September 13, 1948, the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington, D.C., received a

| By Hank Klibanoff | The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project opened its fall 2015 semester with C-SPAN in the

| By Caela Abrams | As the Georgia sun set on September 8, 1948, twenty-five year old Sallie Nixon was at

Isaiah Nixon was shot in his front yard in front of his wife and six children in Alston, Montgomery County,

James Andrew Miller, 19, was shot and killed by John Lo Whitaker, 44, on Aug. 30, 1964, following a confrontation

The day Dawson Police Officers Weyman B. Cherry and Randolph McDonald arrested James Brazier, seemingly without warrant, was not anomalous

| By Dania de la Cruz | Only four months into his lifetime appointment as a federal judge in Southwest Georgia

| By Nicole VanderMeer | Deep into the second day of Hattie Bell Brazier’s lawsuit against the law enforcement officers she

| By Christa Nutor | Hattie Brazier was a seamstress, wife and mother of four children who, through a series of violent

| By Rupsha Basu | “Bubba, why don’t you go on and get in the car,” were the words that Hattie

| By Nathaniel Meyersohn & Hannah Coleman | On April 23, 1958, Odell Brazier appeared at the FBI’s field office in

| By Erica Sterling |  In the hands of Reverend Amos O. Holmes was a letter, one that had been passed

| By Ali Chetkof and Scott Schlafer | Dr. Charles Ward arrived at the Terrell County Jail in Dawson, on Sunday,

| By Erika Burgess | Dr. Charles McCuin Ward arrived in the small town of Dawson, Georgia, in 1955 as a

| By Lauren Browning | On Thursday October 29, 1970, the front page of The Dawson News greeted its readers with

| By Taylor Madgett, Sonam Vashi, Sanai Meles, Nelson Adams | The May 15, 1958, edition of The Dawson News reported

| By Lily Weinberg | As 21-year-old Marvin Goshay walked through the streets of Dawson on a hot August day in

| By Jordan Friedman | Irene Gladden sat quietly in her jail cell at Terrell County Jail during the evening of

| By Ami Fields-Meyer | On the night of April 20, 1958, Mary Carolyn Clyde was awake in her cell in

| By Avery C. Suber | After 31-year-old James Brazier left his church that April Sunday and started the ignition of

| By Lucas Buyon | In late 1958 James Brazier walked into the Chevrolet dealership where he worked in Dawson and

James C. Brazier, a husband and father, a 31-year-old striver who worked two and sometimes three jobs, spent most of

Weeks of tension between police and residents of the Perry Homes housing project in northwest Atlanta peaked on September 13,

On July 11, 1964, nine days after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act, Lt. Col.

| By Mia Kaminsky | Maceo Snipes was a proud veteran who had recently returned home to Taylor County, Georgia, after

| By Erica Sterling | A Man whose Death Inspired the Teenager who Led the Movement Maceo Snipes must have felt a

Mattie Green, a 32-year-old mother of six, died from the impact of a bomb that exploded under her family's home

On the morning of December 5, 1956, B.T. Dukes, a 71-year-old white retired farmer from Molena, Georgia, a small farming

On Nov. 20, 1948, Robert "Duck" Mallard was driving to his home in Lyons, Toombs County with his wife, son,

Dr. Thomas H. Brewer was Columbus's most prominent civil rights activist and the founder of the city's NAACP chapter. He

Willie Joe Sanford's decomposed body was pulled out of Limestone Creek in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, on March 1, 1957, after

Police Chief James Mitchell Bohannon of Summit, Eamuel County, shot and killed Army Corporal Willie Lee Davis at a juke

| By Mary Claire Kelly |  Little more than a month after he brutally and fatally beat James Brazier, Police Officer