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A crisis occurred in Mansfield, Texas, during the fall of 1956. A typical Jim Crow town in the South, Mansfield had numerous “separate but equal” laws.
they arrived on a continental trailways bus. they got the bus to stop right out in front of the house. they went and broke into the house. the two men did. virginia stayed out in the woods. they were going to wait until somebody came home. a homeowner returned, a friend along with him. they were waiting with a sawed- off shotgun. the sheriff found some signs of a struggle, otherwise the crime scene was a carbon copy of the douglas murders. they had been tied with the ropes, feet and hands bound behind their backs. they had hoods over their heads, both of them had been shot execution style. they didn t connect the cases right away. but they did have something to go on. the homeowners had a missing
Behind the pine curtain of deep East Texas is a world trapped in the past and hidden from the future: lush woods, poor whites, the descendants of slaves, and an aristocracy still breathing the rarefied air of the Old South.