Three years after Wilder and Bozeman began serving their sentences, in 1985, then–US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III slapped three civil rights workers with a twenty-nine-count indictment for forging or changing and then mailing bogus absentee ballots. His primary target was Albert Turner Sr., a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr. Albert Turner Sr. entered the voting rights battle in the early 1960s after he, a college-educated man, failed Alabama’s literacy test. Infuriated, Turner threw himself into grassroots organizing. He was knee-deep in
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