Reverend George Wesley Lee

In the spring of 1955, Reverend George Wesley Lee, a 51-year-old African-American minister and entrepreneur, was a formidable presence in the fight for civil rights in the Mississippi Delta. As the co-founder of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the NAACP, he was a driving force behind voter registration efforts for Black citizens, successfully helping to register nearly 100 new voters in Humphreys County. This activism did not go unnoticed, and Reverend Lee faced repeated threats and warnings ...

Zinn Education Project: May 7, 1955: Murder of Rev. George W. Lee - Zinn Education Project