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This is Barry Truss. I'm Hank Glybinoff.

Now I'd like to tell you that things got better in Tarot County in the years after the death

of James Brasier and Willie Countryman. But they didn't. The white citizens of Tarot were in the

midst of an upheaval that they didn't understand. The civil rights movement said it was all about

equality. But to most whites, it was a zero-sum game. Black people made gains only when white people

suffered losses. I mean, you may recall that that's the way the federal judge Robert Elliott

saw it when he was asked to permit black people to stage an anti-discrimination march in Albany.

He couldn't possibly do that, he said, because the city police would then have to abandon

the white neighborhoods in order to keep an eye on the black marchers.

Many of the whites of Tarot County weren't willing to lose anything.

In the midst of poverty, all they had was their perception of superiority,

the certainty that they were better and deserve better than their black neighbors.

What happened when James Brasier bought a car that the white police of Dawson couldn't afford?

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