Civil Rights Memorial
Montgomery, Alabama
Names of the Martyrs who lost their lives in Freedom's Cause,
1955-1968:
May 7, 1955 · Belzoni, Mississippi
Rev. George Lee-52
August 13, 1955 · Brookhaven, Mississippi
Lamar Smith-63
August 28, 1955 · Money, Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till-14
October 22, 1955 · Mayflower, Texas
John Earl Reese-16
January 23, 1957 · Montgomery, Alabama
Willie Edwards Jr.-24
April 25, 1959 · Poplarville, Mississippi
Mack Charles Parker-23
September 25, 1961 · Liberty, Mississippi
Herbert Lee-49
April 9, 1962 · Taylorsville, Mississippi
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr.-28
September 30, 1962 · Oxford, Mississippi
Paul Guihard-30
April 23, 1963 · Attalla, Alabama
William Lewis Moore
June 12, 1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
Medgar Evers
September 15, 1963 · Birmingham, Alabama
Addie Mae Collins
Denise McNair
Carole Robertson
Cynthia Wesley
September 15, 1963 · Birmingham, Alabama
Virgil Lamar Ware-13
January 31, 1964 · Liberty, Mississippi
Louis Allen
March 23, 1964 · Jacksonville, Florida
Johnnie Mae Chappell
April 7, 1964 · Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Bruce Klunder
May 2, 1964 · Meadville, Mississippi
Henry Hezekiah Dee
Charles Eddie Moore
June 21, 1964 · Philadelphia, Mississippi
James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Henry Schwerner
July 11, 1964 · Colbert, Georgia
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn
February 26, 1965 · Marion, Alabama
Jimmie Lee Jackson
March 11, 1965 · Selma, Alabama
Rev. James Reeb
March 25, 1965 · Selma Highway, Alabama
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
June 2, 1965 · Bogalusa, Louisiana
Oneal Moore
July 18, 1965 · Anniston, Alabama
Willie Brewster
August 20, 1965 · Hayneville, Alabama
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
January 3, 1966 · Tuskegee, Alabama
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
January 10, 1966 · Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer
June 10, 1966 · Natchez, Mississippi
Ben Chester White
July 30, 1966 · Bogalusa, Louisiana
Clarence Triggs
February 27, 1967 · Natchez, Mississippi
Wharlest Jackson
May 12, 1967 · Jackson, Mississippi
Benjamin Brown
February 8, 1968 · Orangeburg, South Carolina
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr.
Delano Herman Middleton
Henry Ezekial Smith
April 4, 1968 · Memphis, Tennessee
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we work furiously in the next two days to GOTV, let us remember the price paid back then for rights which we should never take for granted now. The Right to Vote is the right which safeguards all of our other Civil Rights.
Why we fight: These beautiful children, our hope and our future.
The Civil Rights Martyrs
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The Civil Rights Memorial
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The Civil Rights Memorial honors the achievements and memory of those who died during the Civil Rights Movement, a period framed by the momentous Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968. The memorial serves as a vehicle for education and reflection about the struggle for equality.