In the early morning hours of May 6, 1960, a young Black man named Marvin Leonard Williams, aged 20, died while in police custody in Conway, Arkansas. A former paratrooper and a married father with a second child on the way, Williams had been taken into custody by two white police officers on the evening of May 5th from a parked car on Markham Street, where he had been resting. The official report from law enforcement at the time claimed that Williams, allegedly arrested for public intoxication,
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