Willie James Howard

Deborah Kristina
4 min readApr 22, 2021
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I love Reddit and I stumbled upon the following which made me think really hard this morning.

I am very sad because Willie James Howard would have lived to 92 if he weren’t murdered for revealing in a letter that he was fond of a white girl. He was simply a young man who was brave enough to tell a white girl that he liked her and got killed for it.

When I think of my grandmother, I think of how this

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)