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August 26, 2019

William "Buddy" Evans, at left, Otto Tucker, Edward Gaddis, Morris L. Murray and Clarence "Buck" Strange are escorted by police out of the “whites only” Alexandria Library on Queen Street after requesting a library card on Aug. 21, 1939.

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