On this day in 1965, three white men fatally shot Willie Brewster as he headed home from work at a pipe foundry near Anniston, Alabama.
On this day in 1965 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today July 18, 2024 JULY 18, 1965 Willie Brewster was heading home after working at a pipe foundry near Anniston, Alabama, when he was shot and killed by three white men. Back home, his two children and his wife, Lestine, now pregnant, were waiting for him. Shots struck his spine as the men passed.
It was believed to be the first case in Alabama where an all-white jury convicted a white man of killing a Black man in Alabama. He never served time behind bars. Instead, while he was out on bond, he was killed in a bar fight.This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.The stories of investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put four Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars.
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