| By Lauren Browning | On Thursday October 29, 1970, the front page of The Dawson News greeted its readers with the stunning news that the police chief, Weyman Burchle Cherry, had died instantly the previous Saturday when his car crashed into the abutment of a
| By Taylor Madgett, Sonam Vashi, Sanai Meles, Nelson Adams | The May 15, 1958, edition of The Dawson News reported upon a seemingly ordinary incident that took place the previous morning: a car accident. The vehicle was completely totaled but its driver, Terrell County Sheriff
| By Lily Weinberg | As 21-year-old Marvin Goshay walked through the streets of Dawson on a hot August day in 1958, Police Officer Weyman Cherry abruptly stopped him.[1] Goshay, who had been an eyewitness the night James Brazier was taken from jail and beaten four
| By Jordan Friedman | Irene Gladden sat quietly in her jail cell at Terrell County Jail during the evening of April 20, 1958. Her roommate, Mary Carolyn Clyde, was staring out the jail cell window. Suddenly, Clyde saw something that caught her attention. “Come here,” she
| By Ami Fields-Meyer | On the night of April 20, 1958, Mary Carolyn Clyde was awake in her cell in the Terrell County Jail when she saw Dawson Police Officers Weyman B. Cherry and Randolph E. McDonald remove James Brazier from his cell in the
| By Avery C. Suber | After 31-year-old James Brazier left his church that April Sunday and started the ignition of his 1958 Chevrolet Impala, he and his family would never be the same. Even before those fateful events, the Braziers were targets for white violence.
| By Lucas Buyon | In late 1958 James Brazier walked into the Chevrolet dealership where he worked in Dawson and bought a new Chevy Impala. Brazier and his wife worked multiple jobs: five between them. Together, they saved up enough money to buy two new
James C. Brazier, a husband and father, a 31-year-old striver who worked two and sometimes three jobs, spent most of his Sunday, April 20, 1958, as he usually did: with his extended family, in church, in Terrell County in rural southwest Georgia. The Brazier family
