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Interview: Vivan Leburg Rothstein
On June 30, 1965 Leburg wrote her mother: Yesterday, I was sent to Leake County to work in the new office started there. We are out in rural Mississippi. The closest store is about 5 miles and the closest town about 25 miles. It's beautiful country, and it's quiet and green…. There is no movement around her yet, and if one starts it will be through the efforts of three of us volunteers and about four local people. The office is a tiny shack and was given to us after the man who lived in it died. Water comes from an old pump, and we use an outhouse which belongs to the family next door… Yesterday I went into Canton with the Movement people down there and integrated a white park. It was really weird. The white people are like animals here. They hate especially us white folks, because they can't understand us at all. It was the first time I have come face to face with any white southerners besides the police. The white people were yelling at us and spitting, but we have a court order which makes the integration protected by the court, so they couldn't beat anyone up.
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