Complex sentence: At the time of Mrs. Williams' murder, racial segregation was intense in Shelby and rumors of the Ku Klux Klan threatening to harm Roseboro were taken so seriously that he was secretly transferred to a jail in a nearby county until his trial in 1969.
Split into simpler sentences: At the time of Mrs. Williams' murder, racial segregation was intense in Shelby. Rumors of the Ku Klux Klan threatening to harm Roseboro were taken so seriously that he was secretly transferred to a jail in a nearby county until his trial in 1969.