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Mike Smith presented Arthur Brown (pictured) with a poem he wrote after hearing of the murder of Brown's brother, Benjamin, in May 1967.

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Family Remembers a Fallen Hero

Benjamin Brown was a 22-year-old activist in 1967 when law enforcement officers shot him once in the back and again in the back of the head during a civil-rights demonstration ...

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