Bobby,
The bracket you're referring to have the two square nuts on the top side (under the dash, so to speak), that the steering column mount bolts screw in to? Sounds like it. If it is, rap it with a rubber mallet sideways toward the drivers side. Hammer on it at the firewall end. And yes, it does fit tight. I used a dead-blow hammer. It will come out.
The bolts going through this brace through the firewall will have to come out all the way. Seems like they are carriage bolts going from the inside out, with nuts on the firewall side.
