Films About the Civil Rights Movement
Resource by the Zinn Education Project
A selection of films about the Civil Rights Movement.
Murder of Reverend George W. Lee
Reading by Zinn Education Project
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. He was murdered on May 7, 1955.