Carlotta writes "in this battle, the segregationists forced everybody to choose sides. if you weren't with them all in the way in words and deeds, there was not middle ground. you were against them." she is describing the 4 groups of people she encountered at central. how did the battle lines set up the groups?

The devided them evenly until the armed forces agreed that each of them could go in the corner of the areas. This resulted in a retreat from one corner because the enemy soldiers came from that one corner, once they entered their town, they had killed the other soldiers in the corners despite being outnumbered. 

Fine it out your self

They're related, not the same because the two words stress different tenses. like interested is past tense and interesting is present tense