Patricia Walker Bearden and Yolanda Walker Simmons can still recall the passed-down stories of their late grandfather, Alex Wesley Walker.
The sisters said on the night of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, their grandfather, who worked as a bellman at the Kimball House Hotel in Atlanta, rushed home to his house located in Brownsville, a middle-class Black neighborhood in south Atlanta.
A white mob pursued him, and he had to protect his family and pregnant wife.
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