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Willie Davis of Lincoln Rec Center Honored as “Black Hero of Chinatown” 

July 25, 2022 Tony Daquipa

When Willie Davis, Jr. moved to East Oakland in 1981, he was a firefighter at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. He says that that job, which he had for 25 years, required

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