Longtime Atlanta civil and human rights activist Dr. Joseph Beasley has died, according to his family. He was 88. Born to sharecroppers on a rural plantation in Inman, Ga., on Dec. 27, 1936, Joseph Henry Beasley rose from a segregated one-room schoolhouse to become a towering figure in the fight for justice and equality. After […]

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