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Jonathan Myrick Daniels

Back in the day on August 20th, 1965, civil rights activist and seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels was gunned down in Alabama. The twenty-six year old student enrolled at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Massachusetts heeded the call of Dr. Martin Luther King to stand in direct solidarity with the oppressed blacks of Selma. Daniels took a leave of absence from his studies to march on the state capital of Montgomery from Selma alongside the civil rights movement. Another demonstration followed in Fort Deposit, Alabama where he and twenty-two others were arrested. Upon release from jail days later, Daniels, a Catholic priest, and two young black students walked to a store in Hayneville to get a soda. They were approached by Tom Coleman, a volunteer deputy sheriff, who pointed his shotgun at the teenaged black girl when Daniels pulled her away and stepped in the line of fire dying instantly.

Coleman also seriously wounded the priest in a second shotgun blast, but an all-white jury acquitted the killer of his crimes.

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