It was all about the children.
Black children, mostly boys, were missing and found dead throughout Atlanta. In some cases, they were strangled. In others, they were stabbed and shot.
Monica Kaufman Pearson, then a nightly anchor on WSB-TV, would come on television every night and recite the common phrase:
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