‘People with no heart, no feeling’: When the Klan forced 24-yr-old Willie Edwards Jr. to jump to his death from bridge
3 years
Willie Edwards Jr., a 24-year-old Black husband and father of two, had only been a truck driver with the supermarket chain Winn-Dixie for three months when he was called to cover another driver’s shift. Edwards was eating dinner with his family in Montgomery, Ala., when his boss at Winn-Dixie called him to ask if he...