“Ninety-two-year-old Willie Bright was so frightened of ‘the law’ that he wouldn’t even admit he’d voted,” reported Ari Berman in a 2016 piece for The Nation magazine, “Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights.” In the end, after a grand jury indictment, then a trial, Albert Turner, Evelyn Turner, and Stephen Hogue were found not guilty of any wrongdoing. There had been no voter fraud. That trial, like Bozeman and Wilder’s, signaled how to use “the criminal processes . . . to slow down the development of progressive black leadership.”
