Earl Shinhoster
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Earl T. Shinhoster, was a Black civil rights activist, in Savannah, Georgia.
Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994-95, he served as Interim Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Shinhoster died near Montgomery, Alabama in a car collision in 2000. [1]
In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution [2] [3] to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
- ^ House Resolution 182 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge, Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001
- ^ Senate Resolution 6 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge, Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001
[edit] See also
- Dorothy Barnes Pelote
- Curtis Cooper (civil rights leader)
- Georgia General Assembly
- Ralph Mark Gilbert
- Savannah, Georgia
- W. W. Law
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