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Black History | Herbert Lee | NAACP member killed for registering voters

Posted on February 2, 2015 by SouthernGirl2

Herbert Lee was a 42 year old a dairy farmer and father of nine children in Amite County. He had been a member of the NAACP since the early 1950s. When SNCC voting rights activists started working in Amite and … Continue reading →

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