In the spring of 1970, the city of Augusta, Georgia, was a powder keg of racial tension waiting for a spark. Decades of systemic oppression and injustice simmered just beneath the surface for the city's Black residents. That spark came with the death of Charles Oatman, a mentally disabled 16-year-old Black youth who died under brutal circumstances in the county jail. News of his death, his body bearing marks of torture, ignited a firestorm of protest that would engulf the city in what became kno
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