About Jonathon Myrick Daniels

Daniels was the a 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian at Episcopal
Divinity School (EDS) who answered the call of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. to help register African-American voters in Alabama,
only to be shot and killed months later, on August 20, 1965, while
shielding a then 16-year-old Ruby Sales from the shotgun fired as she
attempted to enter a store to buy something to drink.

Sales said the incident rendered her mute for several months.
"The [Civil Rights] Movement was one of the most important struggles
of the century because it broke the back of southern apartheid...

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