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ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Two civil rights groups plan to ask federal officials to investigate the 60-year-old unsolved killing of a World War II veteran who was shot after becoming the first registered black voter in a rural Georgia county.
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. He collapsed in the doorway of his farm house in Taylor County, about 90 miles south of Atlanta.
State NAACP officials and the Prison & Jail Project, a prison advocacy and civil rights group, plan to ask the Taylor County Commission on Tuesday to support the probe before mailing their request to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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