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Black History Fact
Fri, Oct 23
|United States
"James Zwerg"
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 AM – 11:50 PM
United States
About This Event
A white college student stepped off a bus in Alabama…
and segregationists beat him nearly to death for standing beside Black people.
1961.
Montgomery, Alabama.
James Zwerg was only 21 years old when he made a decision that many people around him could not understand:
He willingly walked into danger.
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