Willie Edwards Jr. (November 13, 1932 – January 23, 1957) was a 24-year-old black American, husband and father, who was murdered by members of the Alabama...
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The history of what is now Alabama stems back thousands of years ago when it was inhabited by indigenous peoples. The Woodland period spanned from around...
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On April 29, 2017, Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old African-American boy, was murdered by police officer Roy Oliver in Balch Springs, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort...
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Ku Klux Klan (redirect from Knights of the Ku Klux Klan)
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activists Harry and Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida, resulting in their deaths. The 1957 murder of Willie Edwards Jr.,...
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the Murder of Viola Liuzzo. Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300129998 McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the...
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and entered Montgomery on Parallel Street. The bridge, scene of the murder of Willie Edwards, was subsequently removed. U.S. roads portal United States...
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2017 Mississippi shootings (redirect from Willie Cory Godbolt)
murdered at that house. Golbot then drove to a house in Brookhaven in which he murdered 18-year old Jordan Blackwell, and 11-year old Austin Edwards....
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death was the third killing of a black male by white mobs in New York City during the 1980s; the other two victims were Willie Turks, who was killed on June...
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of the Louisiana legislature. Years later as governor, Edwards appointed Cleveland's daughter, Willie Mae Fulkerson (1924–2009), a former member of the...
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wealthy gem-collector, Brandon Edwards, gains possession of the largest star sapphire in the world, the 'Eye of the Daughter of the Moon', after it has been...
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