COLUMBIA — Eliot Battle recalls the first time he went to register to vote in 1945. He had read an article in an Alabama newspaper that said four black people and 200 white people had registered the previous day.
Columbia civil rights leaders reflect on historic election
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 | 8:50 p.m. CST
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