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George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Rev. George Washington Lee, one of the first African Americans registered to vote in Humphreys County, Mississippi since Reconstruction, used his pulpit and his printing press to urge others to vote. Lee was head of the Belzoni, Mississippi NAACP.
Jul 20, 2024 · George Wesley Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
George Wesley Lee was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
George Wesley Lee was an American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. George Wesley Lee was born in 1903 in Edwards, Mississippi. Lee, who advocated enfranchisement for Afro-Americans, was the first Black person to register to vote in Humphrey's County Mississippi in 1955 after a court ordered the registration of Black voters.
Rev. George Wesley Lee was a pioneering civil rights activist in the Delta whose unsolved 1955 murder illustrates the tremendous risks associated with advocating racial and political equality in Mississippi in the 1950s. Born in 1903, the son of a white father and a black sharecropper, Lee grew up in Sunflower County, where he attended […]
Feb 13, 2020 · Lee was the first black person in Humphreys County to register to vote in recent memory. He and a friend Gus Courts, then co-founded a local branch of the NAACP. By 1955, Lee and Courts had registered nearly all of the county's 90 eligible black voters.
