Presented by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project of Northeastern University School of Law led by Professor Margaret

Burnham October 26, 2011

The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) conducts research and supports policy initiatives on anti-civil rights violence in the United States and other miscarriages of justice of that period. CRRJ serves as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil rights era.

Lynched on November 25, 1918 Culpeper, Virginia

 Allie Thompson arrested and charged with rape of a

white woman on November 20, 1918 Taken to Culpeper County Jail Gang of 15 hooded men took him out of the jail on November 25, 1918 in early hours of morning Lynched two miles away No one was ever charged with the crime

 Official Investigation Death Certificate Revision Exoneration Memorial/Apology/Community Education

 Isaiah Nixon- 28 year old turpentine worker and

veteran in Alston, Georgia (Montgomery County) Wife was Sallie Nixon- they had 6 children Nixon voted in Georgia Primary Jim A. Johnson and Johnny Johnson confronted Nixon at his home for voting Jim A. Johnson pulled out a handgun and shot Mr. Nixon in front of his wife and children on the front porch of their home Nixon was taken to a hospital 25 miles away and died 48hours later from the gun shot wounds

 NAACP pressures the case to go forward and fuels an

awareness campaign under Voting Rights Jim A. Johnson charged with murder; Brother Johnny was charged as an accessory to the murder. Both brothers were acquitted on November 5, 1948. After the trial, the Nixon family was forced to move from Georgia to Jacksonville, Florida upon threats of violence

 The Nixon murder gained some national press but was

reported most vigorously by the Pittsburgh Courier Pittsburgh Courier in honor of the Mrs. Nixon and her children, opened up the Nixon Fund for Relief
Received money donations from all over the country

(including from Professionals, Churches, and even the Harlem Globe Trotters Proceeds paid for a newly built house and furnishings in Jacksonville, Florida

 An accurate account of the trial proceedings A new investigation into the case
Received information that Johnson Brothers were

working the voting polls that day Were also involved in the brutal assault of an NAACP Chapter President-D.V. Carter that same day
Contact with surviving family members Memorial/Apology/Community Education

Crittenden County, Arkansas

 Joined the army and served in WWI Utility worker

Prominent landowner and father

Started cotton gin business Attacked and murdered on June 4, 1954

Body was tied to a tree, mutilated, and burned

No investigation ever conducted

Marriage to Alice Banks

Military Service

CRRJ and the Banks Family

- Military Honors - Media Coverage - Investigations: - Property - Criminal - Life Insurance Policy - Bank Account - Racial Violence in Crittenden County - Black Farmers in Crittenden County

Military Honors

Criminal Investigation

CRRJ visits Arkansas

New Information and Next Steps

- Life Insurance Policy - Bank Account Research - Tax Sales - Trucking Business - Black Farmers Association

Isadore's Legacy

 Themes Henry Dee and Charles Moore Civil Litigation

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