Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way home from a civil rights march to downtown Eutaw, Ala., Negro demonstrators kept on the alert for any sign of danger from local whites. And still they were surprised. Suddenly a light plane made a low pass over the road and spewed out a heavy, yellow spray of insecticide. Coughing and gagging, the Negroes stumbled out of the fog with ruined clothing and numbing nausea. In an area noted for ingenious forms of Negro harassment, this was surely one of the most notable. Yet the story ran in only one Southern paper-the weekly Southern Courier...
Crawfordville, Georgia, is an easy town to miss. On a road map, it is only a tiny bubble on the main road from Augusta to Atlanta. Travelers by the dozens pass through the town every day without knowing its name--and without caring...
...town creeps up on you, and is there before you realize it. First, are a few whitewashed, immaculately clean frame houses on either side of the road. Then there is a cluster of businesses with a sidewalk elevated above the street and shaded by the stores' wide porches...
...climbed into the car and drove ahead down the road for a hundred yards. Bob, with a camera, walked through the shimmering warmth, snapping pictures...
White people in cars blundered up the road, stared in shock at the column, and wheeled their automobiles around to get away...