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Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965 he was assassinated by a shotgun-wielding construction worker, Tom Coleman, who was a special county deputy, in Hayneville, Alabama while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of the young black civil rights activist. They both were working in the Civil Rights Movement in Lowndes County to integrate public places and register black voters after passage of the Voting Rights Act that summer. Daniels’ death generated further support for the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1991 Daniels was designated as a martyr in the Episcopal church, and is recognized annually in its calendar. He is memorialized in the Civil Rights Movement and other venues.
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Dimensions | 13cm x 10cm x 1.7cm, 18cm x 13cm x 1.7cm, 24cm x 18cm x 1.7cm, 30cm x 24cm x 1.7cm, 42cm x 32cm x 1.7cm |
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