Louis Lomax, July 30, 1970

Louis Lomax died under mysterious circumstances when his brakes in his car failed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on July 30, 1970. He was the first recognized African-American television journalist, and was also a book author who had been awarded a lucrative contract by FOX to make a film on slain Civil Rights leader Malcolm X. The FBI under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover had a 141 page file on Lomax.

Clinton Melton and Wife, December 8, 1955

Elmer Otis Kimball (also reported as Elmer Kimbell), who was a friend of one of Emmett Till's murderers J.W. Milam, murdered Clinton Melton and then nineteen days later Melton’s young wife was killed only a week before Kimball’s murder trial opened, after she had been trying to get justice for her husband's homicide in Glendora, Mississippi. Mrs. Melton was driven off the road and into a bayou, where she drowned a week before the trial. Her children who were in the car survived. (Mrs. Melton is pictured above with her children and assassinated Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers is seated on the right in the picture.)

George W. Lee, May 27, 1955

George W. Lee was a minister, vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi branch of the NAACP. Known for his integrity and strength despite the oppressive state of affairs in Mississippi at the time he registered many African-Americans to vote and spoke boldly against the racism that prevailed at the time despite many threats to his life. He was assassinated in 1955 while driving his car.

Lamar Smith, August 13, 1955

Lamar Smith, a farmer and World War I veteran, was active in registering African-Americans to vote when he was shot to death in broad daylight at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Despite many witnesses, including the local sheriff, who saw a white man covered with blood leaving the scene. No witnesses would come forward and the three men who had been arrested went free.

Roman Duckworth, April 9, 1962

Roman Duckworth, a Corporal in the Army, was shot to death by a police officer in Taylorsville, Mississippi on April 9, 1962.

Ronald Stokes, April 27, 1962

Ronald Stokes was a Los Angeles, California resident who had worked hard for a drycleaning business, supporting his family and many others in the community when he was wrongfully accosted by police officers who mistakened him for a criminal. He had never been arrested and was known for his strong work ethic. By the time the exchange between him and police occurred he lay dead, after being beaten while he was in handcuffs and a delay in the ambulance arriving 45 minutes later.

George Stinney, June 16, 1944

George Junius Stinney of Alcolu, South Carolina was a fourteen-year-old who was wrongfully convicted of murdering two girls after he was coerced into confessing the crime according to police. He was executed in Columbia, South Carolina and is listed as the youngest person to have ever been executed....which doesn't include lynchings.