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American civil rights leader and minister Midnight, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Lamar Smith: 1955: 13 August American civil rights leader, farmer, and veteran Brookhaven, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Dr. Thomas Hency Brewer: 1956: 18 February American co-founder of an NAACP chapter Columbus, Georgia United ...
Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette V. S. Moore, were pioneer activists and leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement in the United States and became the first martyrs of the movement. On the night of Christmas, December 25, 1951, a bomb that had been planted under the bedroom floor of the Moores' home in Mims, Florida, exploded. [1]
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Attorney Ben Crump and legal team speak alongside daughter of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz, during a news conference to announce a lawsuit against government agencies ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American civil rights activists. It includes American civil rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The family of the slain civil rights leader marked the anniversary of his 1965 assassination Tuesday by announcing plans to sue federal agencies for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role ...