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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 ...
The Detroit chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild did not consider Chin's killing a violation of his civil rights. [29] At first, the ACJ was the only group that supported applying existing civil rights laws to Asian Americans. Eventually, the national body of the National Lawyers Guild endorsed its ...
For Helen Zia, an Asian American activist who moved to Detroit in the 1970s, Chin’s case laid bare the glaring injustices that her community faced. Lacking any local organizations to advocate for Asian American civil rights, Zia co-founded the American Citizens for Justice, which helped to secure a federal trial against Chin's killers.
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.
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]
On 15 October 1984, Liu was shot to death in the garage of his home in Daly City, California shortly after 9 a.m. [4] [7] Helen Cui, Henry's wife, had noticed two Asian men riding bicycles near their house that morning and the morning before; she heard loud noises in the garage and discovered her husband had been killed. [6]
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his ...
March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...