It took the intervention of three white officials in the local United Mine Workers union, who got Governor Jim Folsom involved, before Leon Alexander was finally registered to vote. And even then the registrar tried to have the last laugh. He didn’t add Alexander’s name to the official list of eligible voters, so that although he was registered, he couldn’t cast a ballot. That required another intervention: one of those white allies telephoned and demanded that the registrar include Leon Alexander’s name on the list.
