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American civil rights organizer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles McLaurin (born in 1941) is an American civil rights organizer.[1] He moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi, in 1962 as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to help alleviate injustices and expose the activities of James Eastland against African Americans.[2] He helped register African Americans to vote and was part of the Freedom Summer movement. His efforts met with retribution and violence.[3] He worked with Fannie Lou Hamer. He was jailed.[4]
He wrote notes on organizing.[5] He later lived in Indianola.[3]
The PBS show American Experience includes a segment where he revisits towns in rural Mississippi he worked in organizing voters.[4] He was interviewed in 2015.[6]
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