Word: fireplugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...