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Down highway 202 on a patch of land not far from where old Forsythe's grocery store used to be, there's a dead end that holds the buried skeletons of a small Southern town.
Not Good but Getting Better: A Small Southern Town Tries to Shake Memories of Klan Violence - BV Black Spin
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"You were always nervous because the KKK was out to destroy us, and they didn't hide that," said Samuel Williamson, another black Annistonian who was a little boy in 1961.
..."To me it ain't no better now than it was," Hawkins said. "They were rough on us back then. Still rough on us now."
The more things change the more they remain the same.
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