The attorneys took notes, which ended up being discovered in an Ohio State archive a half century later, along with lots of other paperwork that revealed that most of what the public learned about the case, at trial, and in the famous Look magazine story that followed, had been invented by the lawyers to protect their clients first, and then to protect segregation itself generally, and to make sure Leslie Milam and his barn got written out of the history, since he remained vulnerable to prosecution. She sat in the Breland & Whitten law office in between the railroad tracks and the Sumner
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