Herbert Lee was an American civil rights activist remembered as a proponent of voting rights for African Americans in Mississippi, who had been disenfranchised since 1890. He was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Amite County and sought to enfranchise black Americans by encouraging voter registration.
In 1961, Lee assisted Bob Moses, a field secretary with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), in his efforts to persuade locals to register. His activities were met with threats of reprisal by the white community, and Lee became one of the movement's earliest victims to white violence. On this day in 1961, Lee was murdered by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst (1908 - 1990) in broad daylight at the cotton gin while delivering cotton near Liberty.
Hurst killed Lee with a single shot to the head, but later claimed in court that he was defending himself after Lee attacked him with a tire iron. An all-white jury ruled that the killing was a justifiable homicide. In 1964, civil rights activist Louis Allen was killed after he informed federal investigators that his testimony in the case was forced on threat of violence.
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today was interesting to say the least for me lol
Did you all know the story behind the giants causeway (bunch of natural forming regular hexagons) near the coast near Bushmills in northern ireland? Crazy shit.
Some ancient Irish giant decided to build a road to Scotland. You can see Scotland on a clear day from Ireland, believe it or not. So this giant built this road out of all these hexagons and when he got there he saw this absolute unit of a Scottish giant that was like 3 times as big as the irish giant, so he got spooked and ran away. Eventually the irish giant heard the Scottish giant coming down to Ireland on the road he made and he came up with a plan.
He dressed up like a baby and sat in a crib.
The Scottish giant came and saw the giant baby and got freaked out because he thought "damn if that's how big the baby is I dont want to mess with the dad" so he ran back to Scotland and tore up the causeway as he left. I dont think Celtic giants could actually breed, but they were pretty dumb.
Are we sure his thought process was "Oh, that's a baby giant, how big do the adults get!" that spooked him and not "Uh, why is that guy dressed like a baby, oh god oh no is this one of those conventions, shit fuck it I'm out"
Pretty good story tbh :mao-clap:
I do this to scare the mailman sometimes