MrsSBGuinn @LilmissSB - Twitter Profile

9 days ago

He was fighting for something as simple as the right to vote. In Mississippi in 1955, that fight could make a Black man a target. George W. Lee was a Baptist minister in Belzoni, Mississippi, and a voting-rights activist who encouraged Black residents to register and participate in elections. On May 7, 1955, Lee was driving home when he was fatally shot. His death immediately raised questions. Was it simply a murder — or had his activism made him a target? Many in the Black community believed Lee had been killed because of his voting-rights work. Medgar Evers, then a field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, investigated the killing and pushed for greater attention to the case. But justice never came. No one was convicted for George Lee’s murder. His killing became one of the early civil-rights-era murders that exposed the dangers Black Americans faced when they challenged racial discrimination and voter suppression. Lee’s story is sometimes overshadowed by more famous names from the Civil Rights Movement. But his struggle was part of the same fight. He believed Black citizens had the right to participate in the democracy that claimed to represent them. He never lived to see the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But the struggle he joined helped expose a system where exercising a constitutional right could carry deadly consequences. George Lee deserves to be remembered not only for how he died, but for what he stood for. The right to vote. The right to be heard. The right to live as an equal citizen. #vote #blackvote #righttovote #CivilRights

Bmbempower's tweet photo. He was fighting for something as simple as the right to vote.
In Mississippi in 1955, that fight could make a Black man a target.

George W. Lee was a Baptist minister in Belzoni, Mississippi, and a voting-rights activist who encouraged Black residents to register and participate in elections.

On May 7, 1955, Lee was driving home when he was fatally shot.

His death immediately raised questions.

Was it simply a murder — or had his activism made him a target?

Many in the Black community believed Lee had been killed because of his voting-rights work.

Medgar Evers, then a field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, investigated the killing and pushed for greater attention to the case.

But justice never came.

No one was convicted for George Lee’s murder.

His killing became one of the early civil-rights-era murders that exposed the dangers Black Americans faced when they challenged racial discrimination and voter suppression.

Lee’s story is sometimes overshadowed by more famous names from the Civil Rights Movement.

But his struggle was part of the same fight.

He believed Black citizens had the right to participate in the democracy that claimed to represent them.

He never lived to see the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But the struggle he joined helped expose a system where exercising a constitutional right could carry deadly consequences.

George Lee deserves to be remembered not only for how he died, but for what he stood for.

The right to vote.

The right to be heard.

The right to live as an equal citizen.
#vote #blackvote #righttovote #CivilRights

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Ron Chapman

@RonChapman

over 4 years ago

Taking over the case of a wrongfully convicted Texas doctor. More to follow but there was severe injustice in this case. https://t.co/PeBlnNm68u

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Beto O'Rourke

@BetoORourke

about 6 years ago

Nothing random about the murders in Kenosha. You don’t get a white 17 year old killing protestors w/ an AR-15 w/out the President first vilifying protestors, a gun lobby that has cowed Congress into allowing the sale of weapons of war, & a racism stoked by Trump & his enablers.

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over 6 years ago

Black flight attendant's emotional talk with white airline CEO A Southwest Airlines flight attendant had an emotional conversation about race with a passenger who later revealed he was the CEO of American Airlines. https://t.co/MaYNDcKtet #Video #USRC

USRealityCheck's tweet photo. Black flight attendant's emotional talk with white airline CEO A Southwest Airlines flight attendant had an emotional conversation about race with a passenger who later revealed he was the CEO of American Airlines. https://t.co/MaYNDcKtet #Video #USRC https://t.co/q7J3VQQGZR

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over 6 years ago

Don’t act like everyone loved my father. He was assassinated. A 1967 poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate, and may already hate, the authentic King. #MLK.