Remembering the martyrs of the movement: the Civil Rights Memorial honors 40 who dies in America for basic freedoms - Montgomery, Alabama - includes list of the 40 names and how they died
Ebony, Feb, 1990
26 William Moore--A White mail carrier from Baltimore shot April 23, 1963, in Attala, Ala., during his one-man march against segregation.
27 Mack Charles Parker--A truck driver accused of raping a WHite woman was lynched April 25, 1959, by masked White men in Poplarville, Miss.
28 Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn--A U.S. Army reservist fatally shot July 11, 1964, by the Klan while driving near Colbert, Ga.
29 Rev. James Reeb--A White minister from Boston beaten to death Mar. 11, 1965, on the streets of Selma, Ala., during a civil rights march.
30 John Earl Reese--A teenager slain Oct. 22, 1955, by nightriders who opposed improvements on a Black school in Mayflower, Texas.
31 Carole Robertson--A schoolgirl killed Sept. 15, 1963, in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
32 Michael Schwener--A civil rights worker abducted and shot at point-blank range June 21, 1964, by the Klan in Philadelphia, Miss.
33 Henry E. Smith--A South Carolina State College student fatally shot Feb. 8, 1968, when police fired shotguns at demonstrtors in orangeburg, S.C.
34 Lamar Smith--A prominent farmer fatally shot Aug. 13, 1955, in broad dayligh in Brookhaven, Miss., after organizing Black voters.
35 Emmett Louis Till--A chicago teenager lynched Aug. 28, 1955, for allegedly "flirting" with a White woman in Money, Miss.
36 Clarence Triggs--A bricklayer sho in the head July 30, 1966, by nightriders ih Bogalusa, La.
37 Virgil Ware--A youngster fatally shot Sept. 16, 1963, by a White teener while riding his bicycle in Birmingham, Ala.
38 Cynthia Wesley--A schoolgirl killed Sept. 15, 1963, in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in birmingham.
39 Ben Chester White--A caretaker shot June 10, 1966 by Klan members in Natchez, Miss.
40 Samuel Younge Jr.--A college student shot Jan. 3, 1966, by a Tuskegee, ALA., gas station attendant following a dispute over a 'Whites-only' restroom.
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