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Foot Soldiers' of Birmingham to BLM: 'Keep on keeping on | Afro

By Jay Reeves The Associated Press Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil rights protests that helped change the nation in 1963. He spent days in custody and then lived decades haunted by a conviction for […]

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