The anniversary brought "a lot of publicity down here, and when that publicity was over, everybody forgot about this area," said DeLaine, who now lives in Charlotte, N.C.
Change will come when locals demand it, he said.
"Some of it has to do with our responsibility," he said. "If we don't scream, we aren't going to get it. What happened in the '40s and '50s, this community stuck together and demanded."
— Associated Press
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