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Junius Edwards

1929–2008

United States

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Junius Edwards (April 20, 1929 – March 22, 2008) was an African-American fiction writer of the 1950s and 1960s whose work primarily focused on the civil rights movement and on racial issues faced by African Americans in the military and in the American South.

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