Murder of Willie Brewster

On the evening of July 13, 1965, Hubert Damon Strange of the National States' Rights Party shot 39-year-old Willie Brewster as Brewster drove past him on Highway 202 outside Anniston, Alabama. Two days later, Brewster died in a hospital. In December of that year, Strange was convicted of second degree murder. The case was described as the first time in the history of Alabama that a white man was convicted of killing a black man in a racially motivated murder case. However, there are recorded instances of previous convictions of white people in the racially motivated murders of black people. For example, four white men were convicted of murder for lynching a black man in Elmore County in 1901.