In the turbulent 1960s the South went through the growing pains of integration. The transition in the town of Lewiston, Tennessee was fairly painless and violence free except for the actions of a few recalcitrant individuals. The towns leading lawyer, Knox Sturgis, with the help of a judge and sheriff resisted the new order with every means at their disposal. Attorney Fletcher Jackson was their opposite and was in the trenches fighting for the less fortunate long before it was popular. He had just begun research on land fraud perpetrated by Margaret Killmeade when cancer began its deadly...
In the turbulent 1960s the South went through the growing pains of integration. The transition in the town of Lewiston, Tennessee was fairly painle...