George Albert DeLoach, Sr., a 55-year-old man, spent his days wearing the burden of a small town�s peace on his shoulders as the acting chief of police in Childersburg, Alabama. On December 30, 1942, that duty ended in violence after a confrontation inside a restaurant�one of those familiar local places where everybody knew everybody, until one moment shattered that normalcy.
Accounts of what sparked the eruption center on a tense exchange involving a woman inside the caf�. DeLoach and f
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