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The clipping this text was read from
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remember the Appetite Repair Shop, was a gathering spot where folks could listen to the radio. “The white folks listened inside the store while the coloreds stood listening from the end of a long porch to the Joe Louis/ Max Schmeling fights in 1936. In the first fight, Schmeling won. There was jubilation among the whites and I heard one gentleman calling out, ‘Well, we’ve gotten rid of the nigger.’ After the second fight

See SPERRYVILLE, Page A10

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