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...more surprising of the verdicts-and the more hopeful for the survival of the local jury system-came in Anniston. After nine hours of deliberation, the jurors found Hubert Damon Strange, 23, guilty of second-degree murder and gave him a ten-year prison sentence. Two alleged accomplices, Johnny Ira DeFries, 25, and Lewis Blevins, 26, are still to be tried. The case was prosecuted by local authorities, with some help from...
...murder of Willie Brewster, 38, a Negro. Brewster belonged to no civil rights organizations, walked no picket lines, enjoyed a reputation as a hardworking family man who wasn't even "uppity." His mistake was to be caught driving home from work with three friends an hour after the Anniston courthouse had been the scene of a hate rally by the National States Rights Party. Party leaders had openly preached violence "to get the nigger out of the white man's streets." The shotgun blast that killed Brewster came, of course, from behind...
...first time in Alabama history, a white jury voted yesterday to punish a white man for racial murder. After seven hours of deliberation the Anniston jurors sentenced Hubert Damon Strange to ten years in prison for killing Willie Brewster, a local Negro foundry worker...
...local pipe factory at the time he was shot. The nightriders who killed Brewster had just heard a National States Rights Party speaker call for "bloodshed" if necessary to protect white men from Negroes and Communists. To add incentive to the search for the killers, Anniston's civic and business leaders offered a $21,000 reward...
...waitress in Birmingham called out the colored cook to wait on us. The waitress in Anniston let us wait through the fifteen minute rest stop. The waitress in Columbus, Miss. spilled cream all over my brand new overalls. We expected a good whipping or at least a week in jail in war-like Winona, Miss., but they had replaced the cafeteria with vending machines. An ancient, bespectacled colonel offered me a quarter for my front seat as we approached Winona. I declined and he returned to the back of the bus. Jackson, Miss...