We remember on Veterans Day: Aug. 13, 1955, Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in cold blood on the crowded courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging blacks to vote. No one was prosecuted. His murder is one of those listed in the 1955 NAACP pamphlet, "M is for Mississippi and Murder":
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http://bit.ly/NmLyit Find lessons and other resources for teaching outside the textbook about the Civil Rights Movement here:
http://bit.ly/1EpvJfw Learn how Teaching for Change is working with teachers in Mississippi who are teaching -- outside the textbook -- about the state's Civil Rights Movement history:
http://civilrightsteaching.org/5667/ Photo: An early photo of Lamar Smith and his wife Annie Clark Smith/collection of Mary Byrd Markham.
