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Jul 15, 2012 · Willis Edwards, a civil rights and political activist in Los Angeles’ African American community and the former leader of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP who was...
Jul 13, 2012 · Civil rights pioneer Willis Edwards, left, shown here with Julian Bond at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in 2009, died Friday in Mission Hills, California. He was 66.
Jul 16, 2012 · Willis Edwards was the former head of the NAACP Beverly Hills whose legacy included building national honors for civil rights activist Rosa Parks and helping to make the NAACP Image Awards a televised national success.
Jul 13, 2012 · Willis Edwards, part of the Robert F. Kennedy for president campaign in Los Angeles in 1968 and later a key member of the Tom Bradley adminsitration at City Hall, died today of cancer.
Jul 14, 2012 · (CNN) — Willis Edwards, longtime president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch of the NAACP and key to launching the NAACP Image Awards on national television, died Friday in Mission Hills ...
Oct 16, 2012 · Coming out of Moeller High School and coached by Steve Klonne, Willis Edwards was part of a group of local recruits that started taking the University of Cincinnati seriously in football in...
Mar 28, 2005 · Willis Edwards. Association chief executive Willis Franklin Earl Edwards was born in Carthage, Texas, outside of Houston, on January 1, 1946. Edwards was raised by his mother Anita Hudson Edwards and his stepfather Frank Edwards, in section fourteen of the Cahuilla Indian Reservation in Palm Springs, California .
