Hunter decided that Sheriff McCall was “out of control,” and on behalf of the Platts, the former prosecutor sued the Lake County School Board. On his own money he traveled to South Carolina to obtain documents necessary to support the Platts’ claims, and in court, demanding that the board produce evidence to prove conclusively that the Platt children had Negro blood, he left the school board’s unsupported and insupportable case in shreds. “Much as I hate it,” said the judge, Truman Futch, he had no choice but to rule in favor of the Platts, who in October 1955 won the right to return to the
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