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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. He was assassinated in 1955 in ...
A number of George Lee's speeches have been inserted into the Congressional Record, [1] and in 1973, Lee's portrait was hung in the Rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol. [2] In 2006, construction began on "Lee's Landing Retail, Entertainment and Parking", in the Beale Street district of Memphis. A street in the area is also named in Lee's honor.
The incident becomes a pivotal event in the growing civil rights movement after Till's mother allows the boy's mutilated body to be viewed in an open-casket funeral, and after two White men (who years later confess to the murder) are acquitted by an all-White, all-male jury, the standard practice for that time in most of the country, and ...
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Read the full poem at www.poets.org. 'America, I Sing Back' by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke “Oh, but here I am, here I am, here, I remain high on each and every peak,
HOUSTON — George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black ...
Open Casket, a 2016 painting by Dana Schutz "Open Casket", an episode of the American television series The Haunting of Hill House "Open Casket", a song by the death metal band Death from the 1988 album Leprosy
Clarke has self-published much of his work, including seventeen collections of poetry, two novels and four works of drama and opera. He has also served as editor for collections of African-Canadian writers and poets in anthologies and studies such as Border Lines (1995), Eyeing the North Star (1997), Odysseys Home (2002), Fire on the Water (2002), Directions Home (2012) and Locating Home (2017).