A veteran Southern journalist journeys into the heart of rural Alabama to reveal why the small town of Little River erupted into a series of violent racial incidents in 1997, including the murder of a young black man, an attack on the white owner of a local general store, and the burning of two black churches by five white teenagers.
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Born 1936
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