“The court is convinced that Ike Brown, and the NDEC under his leadership, have engaged in racially motivated manipulation of the electoral process in Noxubee County to the detriment of white voters,” reads the opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee.
Lee came to the conclusion that Brown had used oppressive tactics, similar to those that whites used to preserve their power post-slavery, to get Black people into office. Brown and his lawyers maintained that nothing he did was illegal and expressed outrage that for years the DOJ did not address practices that kept Black people out of public office in Noxubee until the 1970s.
Unapologetically Ike Brown – Scalawag
How to win Black electoral power in the Deep South, survive the backlash, and stay on top as voter fraud hysteria escalates in the Trump era.
