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Eugene Patterson

Eugene Patterson

1923 - 2013

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites to understand the problems of racial...

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