On this day in 1955, the Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, for urging other Black Mississippians to vote.
On this day in 1955 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 7, 2024 May 7, 1955 George W. Lee The Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, after using his pulpit and his printing press to urge other Black Mississippians to vote. He became one of the first African Americans to register to vote in the mostly Black Humphreys County.
More than 1,000 attended Lee’s funeral, and his widow, Rosebud, decided to open the casket to show how her husband had suffered. Photographs of his body ran in Jet magazine. A few months later, Emmett Till’s mother would do the same for her teenage son when he was killed. Lee is among 40 martyrs listed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. A museum in Belzoni now bears his name and that of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.
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