Remembering a Pioneering Voice in American Civil Rights

He outlived the firehoses, the jeers, the backroom deals—and still kept fighting. From the segregated streets of St. Louis to the power-brokering corridors of Congress, Bill Clay Sr. refused to be quiet, refused to “wait his turn,” refused to make injustice comfortable. Now, at 94, that relentless voice is gone. But what he left behind may terri… Continues…

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