By the 1960's 24 lynchings had been attributed to the town of Blakely and Early County, second in Georgia only to Fulton County with 37 lynchings.
In 1965, right after getting back from my active duty training, I got a four-month touring gig with a Motown band through North and South Carolina. I was the only White person in the band. We would send an advance guy to a small town who would book an evening show in a 'colored' high school, print up posters, and play the next night. What was really interesting was at the lunch stands in a department store, the rest of the band couldn't use the front door to get their food (carry-out, of course); but I had to go into the front door.
White people came, all right; they had no problem going, 'cause them ni**ers sure could play good, and anyway, those boys knew their place. On the other hand, that White bass player was probably a race-traitor and ni**er lover here to serve up trouble.
Now up North (if you consider Maryland "North") I went to a segregated high school; "colored people" (which included Hispanics and even some southern Europeans) couldn't go to Glen Echo Amusement park; and there were still a lot of restaurants which served non-Whites, but only for carry-out; and on and on. Of course miscegenation was against State Law, and if you even looked sideways at a person of another race (especially if you where a Black boy and she a White girl), then Christ knows where or even when you would be found!
But there was no racism down there back in the sixties at all.
and you would only be able to watch television
in black and white. But even though they lacked many of our modern conveniences, people genuinely seemed to be much happier back then. Families actually ate dinner together, neighbors knew and cared about one another, and being an “American” truly meant something. 
but good article and subject. Nice read.
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