Maceo Snipes Murdered After Voting in Georgia Primary

Maceo Snipes of Taylor County, Georgia is the only Black person to vote in the July 1946 Democratic primary. The following day, four white men shoot him on his porch. He dies two days later. A note left at a local Black church reads: 'The first Negro to vote will be the last.' No one is prosecuted. His murder illustrates the lethal consequences of attempting to exercise voting rights in the post-WWII South.