No probe of black vets killing who was shot in the back the day after he voted for the first time

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No probe of black vets killing who was shot in the back the day after he voted for the first time

Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 08:58 AM by NNN0LHI

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/259567,CST-NWS-civil16.article

Probe of black vet's killing can't get support

February 16, 2007

BUTLER, Ga. -- A rural county's leaders declined to take action this week on a request from two civil rights groups to support a federal probe into the unsolved 1946 killing of a black World War II veteran.

The groups and surviving relatives of Maceo Snipes, the first registered black voter in Taylor County, wanted the county commission's support before they mailed their request to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. snip

Maceo Snipes, who served most of his two-year Army hitch in the Pacific, was shot in the back by four white men in 1946 -- a day after the 37-year-old voted for the first time, relatives say. AP

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