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The Death of Willie Brewster
Willie Brewster Jr. looks out the door of his home as he remembers his father, who was shot to death near Anniston in 1965. Photo: John Fleming/The Anniston Star
The Death of Willie Brewster: Memories of a dark time
During the darkest days of the civil rights movement, 7-year-old Willie Brewster Jr. took his dying daddy’s hand in an Anniston hospital and held it tight as the reality of the darkest day of his young life came crashing down around him.
Mar 22, 2009 |  2 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Retired state investigator Harry Sims looks through his notes on the 1965 shooting death of Willie Brewster Sr. recently at his Jacksonville home. Photo: John Fleming/The Anniston Star
The Death of Willie Brewster: The agent, the judge and the trial
As to the facts of the case of Willie Brewster, a man shot to death by nightriders on a lonely stretch of Alabama 202 more than four decades ago, Harry Sims is as detailed as the frayed onion-skin original report he holds out to a reporter with a shaky hand.
Mar 23, 2009 |  0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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An informant told the FBI in 1965 that Kenneth Adams wanted to bomb Anniston's First Presbyterian Church, pictured here, as well as the offices of The Star. Photo: Anniston Star file
The Death of Willie Brewster: Guns, bombs and Kenneth Adams
One name often mentioned in the turbulent history of the civil rights movement in this part of Alabama is Kenneth Adams. The case of Willie Brewster, shot down by nightriders in July of 1965, is no exception.
Mar 24, 2009 |  0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Willie Brewster III, right, and his sister, Tieshia, feel that their grandfather's death, however painful, served some good in bringing about a better Alabama. Photo: John Fleming/The Anniston Star
The Death of Willie Brewster: Finding strength in the pain
Four-plus decades does little to blunt the pain that Willie Brewster's widow, Lestine Easley, feels today.
Mar 25, 2009 |  0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Death of Willie Brewster: Where are they now?
An update on the major figures in the case of the 1965 shooting death of Willie Brewster Sr.
Mar 25, 2009 |  0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Willie Brewster Jr. tells about the murder of his father as other family members listen. The family shared their stories Saturday at The Anniston Star during a Civil Rights Symposium for Stetson University students. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star
Family shares memories of Willie Brewster
Students from two central Florida universities visited Anniston Saturday as part of a 10-day, three-state travel course studying constitutional law and the civil rights movement. Undergraduate students from the University of South Florida and Stetson University, as well as students from Stetson's College of Law, attended a symposium with family members of Willie Brewster Sr., a victim of racist violence in Anniston in 1965, as well as with Star Editor Bob Davis and John Fleming, the Star at-large editor who earlier this year wrote a four-part series on Brewster's death.
Jul 26, 2009 |  4 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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