On January 23, 1957, Willie Edwards Jr. was eating dinner with his family in Montgomery, Ala., when he got a call from his boss at the Winn-Dixie asking if he could cover a shift for another driver.

He left his two small daughters and pregnant wife at home that evening but never made it back.

Years later, a former Klansman said that he and other Ku Klux Klan members pulled Willie out of his truck at gunpoint, terrorized him, and brought him to a high bridge over the Alabama River.

They told him to jump or they’d shoot him. He jumped.

His oldest daughter, Malinda Edwards, was just three years old at the time. In an interview at StoryCorps in September, she told her sister, Mildred Betts, about the moment she learned what happened to her father. Malinda, now 67, was 12 years old when she said her mother told her about the night he was killed.