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George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi , branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .
The lynching victims – George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom – have been commemorated by a community memorial service in 1998, a state historical marker placed in 1999 at the site of the attack (Georgia's first official recognition of a lynching), and an annual re-enactment held since 2005.
George Washington Lee (January 4, 1894 – August 1, 1976) was an African-American soldier, writer, political leader and corporate executive. Born in Heathman, Mississippi in 1894, Lee spent most of his life in Memphis, Tennessee. Lee received numerous citations for his benevolence and civic initiatives.
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Smith's murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi in 1955. The other incidents included the murder of George W. Lee, a civil rights leader in Belzoni (May), the killing of Emmett Till, a black teenager visiting from Chicago (August), and the shooting of Gus Courts (December), a civil rights associate of Lee in Belzoni.
As cameras rolled, Lee was shot in the abdomen with a piece of a dummy bullet left in the gun's barrel from an earlier scene. The .44 Magnum was loaded with blanks, hastily made by a crew member ...
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón's reform-minded outlook on juvenile justice seemed made for someone like Denmonne Lee. When he was 16, Lee took part in an Antelope Valley gas station ...