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George W. Lee
George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was assassinated in 1955 for organizing African Americans to try to register to vote. Since 1890 they had been effectively disenfranchised in Mississippi and in other states across the South since the turn of the century.
==Biography==
Lee was typical of an earlier generation of activists who came to civil rights after they had made a success in business. Like so many in this category, he came up the hard way through backbreaking work, thrift, and determination. Born in 1903, Lee grew up in poverty in Edwards, Mississippi. His mother was an illiterate plantation woman married after Lee was born; his stepfather was abusive. After Lee's mother died while he was young, he was taken in by her sister. Lee graduated from high school, a rarity for blacks living in his circumstances. While eking out a rough living on the banana docks in New Orleans, Louisiana, he studied a correspondence course in typesetting.
During the 1930s, Lee accepted a call to become a preacher in Belzoni, Mississippi, where he led a Baptist congregation. The town was located in the heart of the Delta, where most blacks in the state lived, the majority in extreme poverty. Eager to improve himself at every opportunity, Lee rose to the front ranks of local black business and community leaders. He served as pastor at four churches and opened a grocery store. Lee considered both vocations to serve the African-American community. In a back room of his house, he and his wife, Rosebud, set up a small printing business. They did a brisk business, giving Lee enough resources to enter the battle for civil rights in the early 1950s. As a part of the NAACP, Lee worked tirelessly in trying to register African Americans to vote.
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