Finding Your Identity Through Participation, Perseverance and Prayer November 9-10, 2013 First African Baptist Church 702 N. Railroad Avenue Mt. Vernon, Georgia 30445 (County seat for Montgomery County, Georgia) Rev. Craig B. Snead, Sr., Pastor Sunday, November 10th- Service at 3:00pm Speaker: Rev. Derrick Ryals Pastor of Hills Chapel Baptist Church of Higgston, Georgia UNESCO-TST Florida Center & Rosewood Heritage Foundation, Inc. Veterans Day - Memorial Service for Mr. Isaiah Nixon Isaiah Nixon, a U.S. Army veteran and father of six, was killed for daring to exercise his constitutional right to vote. On September 8, 1948, Isaiah Nixon voted in Georgia’s democratic primary election. That evening Nixon was confronted at his home by two white men, identified as brothers Jim A. Johnson and Johnny Johnson. He was asked to step down from his porch and when Nixon refused he was shot three times by J. A. Johnson. The shooting took place in front of Nixon’s wife and young children. Nixon was transported to a hospital in Dublin where he died of his injuries forty-eight hours later. .The Johnson brothers were indicted by a grand jury but found not guilty at the trial. The pair admitted shooting Nixon but insisted they had gone to the victim’s house hoping to hire him for work and that the shots were fired in self-defense. On November 5, after forty-five minutes of deliberation, the jury acquitted J. A. Johnson of murder. Johnny Johnson’s charges were dropped with his brother’s acquittal. In the wake of his death Isaiah Nixon was recognized by the NAACP, the Pittsburgh Courier and sympathetic citizens across the country as having died a martyr for African American voting rights. Yet his sacrifice bore little reward; the Democratic primary in which Nixon had voted resulted in an overwhelming victory for Herman Talmadge, an avid segregationist who ran for Governor on a platform of white supremacy and opposition to Truman’s civil rights program. Today Isaiah Nixon is all but forgotten. His body lies in an unmarked grave a few hundred feet from his home. Copyright@ Civil Rights and Restorative Justice 400 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115. In Observance of Men Day, please join the men of this community on… Saturday, November 9th - Men of Distinction Prayer Breakfast and workshop Being a Godly Leader workshop facilitator is Minister Cleveland Robinson, Atlanta, Georgia 9:00 – 11:00am Sunday, November 10th - Service at 11:00am Speaker : Minister Cleveland Robinson, Atlanta, Georgia
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