Thursday, January 23, 2014

This is the site of the shoot out between the KKK and NAACP in 1965…

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On the other side of this bridge in front of an old house and next to Huron’s Store is where the cross was burned.  Kay’s family was on the way back to Virginia after visiting grandparents.  Kay’s mother pulled off the road on the right and Kay and her grandfather ran across the street while shots were being fired and hid behind a barrel full of water.  My father, mother, sister and brother were all hiding across the street.

Middleton Post Office