Word: pittsylvania
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...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...
...Sacks of Wheat. The case had a humble beginning. Waller sharecropped a wheat and tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat...