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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]
American minister and civil rights activist Alabama United States: mob Viola Liuzzo: 1965: 25 March American civil rights activist Selma, Alabama United States: Ku Klux Klan: Jonathan Daniels: 1965: 20 August American civil rights activist Hayneville, Alabama United States: Tom Coleman Mehdi Ben Barka: 1965: 29 October Moroccan revolutionary ...
An investigation by Mississippi civil rights workers led to the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. 1964 July 30 Mount Moriah Baptist Church near Meridian, Mississippi was leveled by fire. This attack is connected to countless others that were meant to intimidate Black residents who were active in the Civil rights movement. [5]
Date: July 13, 2015 (): Time: c. 9:00 a.m. Location: Waller County Jail, Hempstead, Texas Coordinates (traffic stop) (Waller County Jail): Type: Death in custody: Cause: Ruled a suicide by asphyxiation: Outcome: Charge dropped against Brian Encinia as part of a plea agreement: Deaths: Sandra Annette Bland: Burial: Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens West Willow Springs, Illinois, U.S.: Inquiries ...
Smith Chapel Cemetery, Mayflower, Rusk County, Texas, USA John Earl Reese (October 9, 1939 – October 23, 1955) was an African American teenager who was murdered in Gregg County, Texas . Reese's killing is considered by authorities today to have been a hate crime , designed to thwart the creation of a new school in the community.
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.
Quanell X is credited with bringing closure to the March 2007 investigation murder of Texas A&M University student Tynesha Stewart [11] He was the only person who was able to get a confession from Timothy Wayne Shepherd, the suspect in the murder. [12]
Carl Hampton (December 17, 1948–July 26, 1970) was a civil rights leader and head of the People's Party II, a precursor to the Houston chapter of the Black Panther Party. During his time leading the organization, the local chapter established community programs to offer food and medicine to Black Houstonians.