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Race Equality Champion Eugene Patterson Dies

by David Folkenflik, NPR
January 14, 2013

Civil rights advocate Eugene Patterson has died at the age of 89 after being treated for cancer. Patterson was a Pulitzer Prize winning editor and columnist. One of his most memorable columns was written after the church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four girls in 1963.

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