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August 14. Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965, he was killed by Tom Coleman, a highway worker and part-time deputy sheriff, in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack. [1]
Jonathan Daniels was a white seminary student who was killed in Alabama in 1965 while trying to protect a black activist from a shotgun blast. He was one of the few white victims of the civil rights movement who received little national attention, and his case was not prosecuted by the justice system.
Apr 15, 2015 · Jonathan Daniels was killed in 1965 while trying to protect a black family from a white mob in Alabama. Keene State College is commemorating his life and legacy with a series of events and a documentary.
Aug 13, 2015 · Jonathan Daniels was a white seminarian who gave his life in 1965 to save a black teenager from a shotgun blast in Alabama. He was arrested and jailed with SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael and other activists during the civil rights movement.
Fifty years ago today, August 20, 1965, Jonathan Daniels was killed in Alabama. He was shot while saving the life of a young black activist. Melanie Peeples brings us a remembrance of this...
Keene, NH native Jonathan Daniels was deeply affected by the events of the civil rights movement, and in 1963 he joined the NAACP and participated with Dr. M...
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Aug 20, 2019 · Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian, was shot and killed in 1965 while defending a young African American woman in Alabama. Learn more about his life, legacy, and the civil rights movement in Lowndes County.
