The Warmth of Other Suns

How did Sheriff Willis McCall become a legendary figure as noted in the nonfiction book, The Warmth of Other Suns?

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Sheriff Willis McCall had been mistreating and abusing the black people of Lake County for decades. He was still sheriff in the early 1970s. The Groveland case in which he shot two shackled black defendants accused of raping a white woman had made him a legend.

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The Warmth of Other Suns