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<text id=93TT2213>
<title>
Sep. 13, 1993: Died:Bill Simpson
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Sep. 13, 1993 Leap Of Faith
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 21
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<p> DIED. Bill Simpson, 37, the last black resident of Vidor, Texas;
shot by a black mugger; in Beaumont, Texas. Simpson moved to
Vidor earlier this year as one of a handful of blacks who came
as the result of court-ordered integration of the East Texas
town's public housing projects. Despite his efforts to assimilate
quietly, Simpson was subjected for months to Ku Klux Klan threats
and racial epithets shouted from passing cars. Unable to endure
the unremittingly hostile atmosphere any longer, Simpson decided
to leave, as all of his fellow blacks already had. He headed
last week for what he thought would be a friendlier community
in nearby Beaumont. Within hours of his arrival, Simpson was
gunned down by a gang member.
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</body>
</article>
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