Tossed Over the Color Line

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1955: A staunch segregationist sheriff (Willis V. McCall) reclassifies a “white” family Lake Country, Florida as “black”, triggering a forced move out of a white neighborhood, expulsion from white schools and this article in Ebony magazine.

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