William (Bill) Brodie, a retired Florida A&M University math professor, is known in the Tallahassee community for his 27-year run as treasurer of the Tallahassee branch of the NAACP, and his incredible story of sharing a jail cell with civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta after a peaceful protest in 1960.

Brodie was barred from a conference host hotel during segregation. Now, he’s being honored.

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