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Civil Rights Activist & NAACP Field Secretary
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On June 12, 1963, hours after President Kennedy’s televised civil rights address, I stood in the driveway of my Jackson home, still wearing the suit I’d worn to coordinate voter registration drives across the Delta, and was struck by a bullet fired from across the street. That night wasn’t an endpoint; it was a catalyst. Before that, I’d personally investigated the lynching of Emmett Till, recruited Medgar Evers College’s namesake students into nonviolent direct action, and filed over 50 legal challenges against segregated schools and public facilities, many while under constant surveillance by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. My work wasn’t about symbolism; it was about infrastructure: building NAACP chapters in towns where membership meant risking your job, your home, or your life. I kept detailed files on every grocery store owner who refused service to Black customers, every registrar who altered literacy test questions on sight, every sheriff who ignored Klan violence. Justice, to me, was measured in affidavits, not applause.
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