How a WWII veteran's act of voting inspired a teenage Martin Luther King Jr.

How a WWII veteran's act of voting inspired a teenage Martin Luther King Jr.

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In 1945, U.S. Army veteran Maceo Snipes returned home to Taylor County, Ga., where he became the first African American to cast a vote in his county's primary. A day after he voted, he was murdered.

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