Pilgrimage honors civil rights martyr - Lowndes Signal

Pilgrimage honors civil rights martyr - Lowndes Signal

Episcopal Church remembers Daniels 60 years later Members of the Episcopal Church and community leaders gathered on Saturday, Oct. 9, in Hayneville to honor the legacy of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who was killed 60 years ago while protecting a teenage girl during the Civil Rights Era. The pilgrimage began on the Hayneville Town Square, where marchers gathered before processing to the building formerly used for the Lowndes County …

Pilgrimage Honors Jonathan Daniels’ Martyrdom - The Living Church

Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian American, led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for a time. His more militant, anti-white agenda eventually went against the original mission of the student-led civil rights organization, according to the National Archives. He left the group in 1967 and became part of the more radical Black Panther Party. In an interview 14 years later for a documentary series, Carmichael spoke about a white seminari…