Martin Luther King, Jr. is an example of a slain civil rights leader. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Medgar Evers is another example.
The name of the Civil Rights leader that was slain in the 1960s is Medgar Evers. He was shot and killed on June 1, 1963 by KKK member Byron de La Beckwith.
President John F. Kennedy was a supporter of Civil Rights during his presidency and was assassinated in 1963.
Harry T. Moore
Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was slain by members of the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The effort to bring his murderers to trial is depicted in the film 'Ghosts of Mississippi.'
Curtis Cooper - civil rights leader - was born in 1932.
who was a black leader who wanted full civil rights for former slaves
No he was a minister and a civil rights leader.
Martin Luther King Jr
Harry T. Moore
He was killed April of 1968 not 69 and LBJ was president.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is an example of a slain civil rights leader. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Medgar Evers is another example.
Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was slain by members of the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The effort to bring his murderers to trial is depicted in the film 'Ghosts of Mississippi.'
Lyndon Baines Johnson
I believe President Lyndon Johnson was the President when Martin Luther King was gunned down dead on theBalcony of Lorraine Motel in Missisipi.
He was always an American civil rights leader...if that's what your question is?
Betty Hill - civil rights leader - was born in 1882.
Betty Hill - civil rights leader - died in 1960.
Curtis Cooper - civil rights leader - died in 2000.
Curtis Cooper - civil rights leader - was born in 1932.