The Cost of the Vote

One man's fight for the ballot reveals the sacrifices of those who shaped the civil rights movement in the American South On August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned away. While the general election would not occur until November, everyone in South Carolina understood that the results of the election would really be decided on that late summer afternoon. South Caro