Primus E. King
Item
- Title
- Primus E. King
- Description
- Photograph of Primus E. King holding a reparation check. He faces forward and smiles. In 1977 the Democratic Executive Committee of Muscogee County, Georgia, as mandated by Federal Judge T. Hoyt Davis in 1945, presented a check for $324.70 to Primus E. King. The court awarded the money to King in reparation for the denial of his right to vote in a 1944 Democratic primary. King, an African American duly registered to vote in Georgia, sought to cast a ballot at the Muscogee County Courthouse in Columbus in the Democratic Party's primary election. Shortly after entering the courthouse, King was roughly turned away by a law officer who escorted him back out to the street.
- Date
- 1977
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Is Referenced By
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/nge_ngen_m-6607
- Source
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Spatial Coverage
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Subject
- African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
- African American men--Georgia--Columbus
- Men--Georgia--Columbus
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
- Checks--Georgia--Columbus
- Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
- Reparations for historical injustices--Georgia--Columbus
- King, Primus E., 1900-1986
- Type
- StillImage
- Site pages
- The Courthouse
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