In September 1948, two white men came calling at Isaiah Nixon’s home. When the black man confirmed that he had indeed voted in that day’s primary election, they shot him.
In September 2017, the nephew of the men who fired those shots stood on the front step of Nixon’s daughter’s home, for a very different reason. Keith Johnson was there to apologize to Dorothy Nixon Williams for what she had watched his uncles do almost 70 years ago.”
May I give you a hug?” Johnson tentatively asked.
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