EUGENE PATTERSON, 89, VOICE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, DIES
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites to understand the problems of racial discrimination, died Saturday evening in Florida after complications from prostate cancer, according to B.J. Phillips, a family spokeswoman.
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