Governor Eugene Talmadge

Linked to Black Suffrage in the Twentieth Century

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Despite Governor Eugene Talmadge's determination to block equality at the polls for the state's Black citizens, a federal court declared the white primary in Georgia unconstitutional in King v. Chapman (1946).

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Governor Eugene Talmadge

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