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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Born on August 17, 1934 and raised in Wheeler, Alabama, Reverend Charles Elliott Jr. of King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville has lived through a lot in his 86 years.
“We’d go down there to get wood because we didn’t have no electric lights or running water. So we’d go in the woods there, and you’d see a Black man hanging. [A] white man didn’t go to jail for nothing he did to a Black person,” Elliott said.
Growing up during the Jim Crow era, Elliott also remembered having to get off the sidewalk to let white people walk by. ....

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