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This is Barry Truths. I'm Hank Clivenoff.

So where do we stand? You may remember us we finished the last episode that the men accused of

killing Isaiah Nixon had been found not guilty by an all-white, all-male jury. The defendants,

the Johnson Brothers, had used what I called the secret password. Now that's two simple words

that in the rural south had kept white men out of jail for years after being accused of racial

attacks. Those words self-defense. And it meant that the men now free could go back to their lives.

But what about the three black families in this story? That's the family of Isaiah Nixon,

the farmer who was shot and killed for voting. Dover Carter, the NAACP leader who was beaten on

the side of the road. And John Harris. Well, let's start our story with him.

The John Harris family. Now you may remember his wife, Sadie, was the one who boarded up the house

the morning of the 1948 election. So they decided to stay in Austin and try to make the best out of a

bad situation. We told you earlier that John Harris and the Sheriff's Let Claude Sharp knew each

other pretty well, and we had left it at that. But there's more. What we didn't tell you,

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