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A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran’s story resonates as Black History Month lesson
By Jeff Jardine, Featured, Minority Veterans, Calvet Connect, One summer afternoon in the late 1950s, eight-year-old Phillip Willis Jr. took a break from mowing lawns at a home in Jackson, Mississippi. Having worked up a […]