In 2011, Black, 22-year-old Justin Patterson was shot and killed at the home of and by the well-connected white man, Norman Neesmith.
Calvin Burns is running to be the first Black Sheriff in MontgomeryCounty, Georgia.
[Burns]"...It ain't the point to be the first Black sheriff. It's the point about making this community better, and I know I can... the sheriff, he and I get along great, but I know I can do a better job."
"When Dr. Martin Luther King came through the scene, and when he marched in Albany... it seemed like everything started smoothing out.
But...as time moved on, the racial began to sneak back in, very sneakily-like..." #SouthernRites #HBODocumentary #HBOMax
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