Season 2: Episode 9: Evander Smith and Herb Donaldson

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Season 2: Episode 9: Evander Smith and Herb Donaldson

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Four years before the 1969 uprising at NYC’s Stonewall Inn, a San Francisco confrontation between the police and that city’s LGBT community proved a turning point. Gay attorneys Herbert Donaldson and Evander Smith were among the night’s heroes.

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Season 2: Episode 9: Evander Smith and Herb Donaldson

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