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The Death of Willie Brewster: Memories of a dark time

  • Anniston Star
John Fleming

During the darkest days of the civil rights movement, 7-year-old Willie Brewster Jr. took his dying daddy’s hand in an Anniston hospital and held it tight as the reality of the darkest day of his young life came crashing down around him.

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