This was the last day of August. That same night, vigilantes poured gunshots into four homes in Lee County, Georgia, outside Albany. All four belonged to supporters of the SNCC voter registration drive. State investigators counted twenty-four bullet holes in the frame house where the chairman of the Lee County Movement lived with his extended family of twenty. No one was hit. Claude Sitton of The New York Times made sure to point out that the chairman was the same man he and Pat Watters had heard sheriff’s deputies threaten at the Shady Grove church in July. Four nights later, vigilantes fired
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