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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Gregory Lewis
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Willie Turner had not reached his teens in 1964, but he vividly remembers the terror African-Americans faced when they stood up for their rights in St. Augustine, Fla. They slept on floors to avoid nightriders' gunshot blasts through windows. An adult cousin's house was burned down because he refused to take his children out of a white Catholic school.
"We were living in fear all the time," said Turner,...
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