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Jonathan Daniels: The Forgotten Civil Rights Preacher Killed by a Cop in Alabama

THE MILITANT SAINT

In 1965 Alabama, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was gunned down while trying to buy a Coke with two Black girls. The cop who shot him was acquitted.

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