About Irwin Brunson

A fourth grader in 1963-64, Irwin was part of the first wave of Black children to integrate St. Augustine public schools. He was bullied and beaten, and his father’s car was firebombed. His next-door neighbors, the Robersons—fellow school integrators--had their house burned to the ground. An artist and writer, Brunson recently moved back to St. Augustine after decades away. 

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