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Golden Asro Frinks (August 15, 1920 – July 19, 2004) was an American civil rights activist and a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) field secretary who represented the New Bern, North Carolina SCLC chapter.〔Wells, Goldie Frinks and Crystal Sanders. Golden Asro Frinks: A Biography of a Civil Rights Activist: Telling the Unsung Song. Aardvark Global Publishing, February 10, 2011. P.39.〕 He is best known as a principal civil rights organizer in North Carolina during the 1960s which landed him a reputation as “The Great Agitator,” having been jailed eighty-seven times during his lifetime. Frinks was also a United States Army veteran who fought in World War II and worked at the U.S naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. After his military career, he began promoting equality for African Americans through organized demonstrations.〔Smith, Amanda Hillard. The Williamston Freedom Movement: A North Carolina Town's Struggle for Civil Rights, 1957-1970. McFarland & Company, Inc. June 30, 2014. P.33.〕 Frinks’ involvement in the Civil Rights Movement brought early civil rights victories to North Carolina, and his willingness to engage in nonviolent, direct action served as a catalyst for civil rights movements in Edenton and nearby towns. After becoming a field secretary of the SCLC, Frinks built a close relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and often worked with the civil rights leader in organizing desegregation movements until King’s death in 1968. Frinks’ work as a field secretary and his direct actions against the Jim Crow Laws began a new era for the civil rights movement in North Carolina and the desegregation of the South. ==Early life== Golden Asro Frinks was born to Mark and Kizzie Frinks on August 15th, 1920 in the small town of Wampee, South Carolina and is the tenth of eleven children in the Frinks family. His unusual name came from a profound “golden text” that Frinks’ mother witnessed at Sunday services just before Frinks was born that afternoon.〔Wells, Goldie Frinks and Crystal Sanders. Golden Asro Frinks: A Biography of a Civil Rights Activist: Telling the Unsung Song. Aardvark Global Publishing, February 10, 2011. P.20.〕 At the age of nine, Frinks moved to Tabor City, North Carolina. This small town served as the primary location for Frinks’ childhood. Frinks’ father, Mark Frinks, worked as a millwright while mother, Kizzie Frinks, worked as a domestic helper for the town’s mayor, J.L. Lewis. Not long after moving to Tabor City, Frinks’ father died and Frinks’ mother was left to take care of the large household. As a single parent, her strong will and determination made a lasting impact on Frinks during his childhood. She taught her children not to conform to society’s status quo, but strive for the change they wanted.〔Wells, Goldie Frinks and Crystal Sanders. Golden Asro Frinks: A Biography of a Civil Rights Activist: Telling the Unsung Song. Aardvark Global Publishing, February 10, 2011. P.22.〕 This influence will later set the stage for Frinks’ outlook on life and push him to fight for racial equality. Another key person during Frinks’ childhood was Fannie Lewis, the wife of the town mayor who Frinks’ mother worked for. Having lost her son at an early age, Lewis took special interest in Frinks and viewed him as a surrogate son.〔Staunton, Vanee. “Golden Frinks: Profile of a Civil Rights Agitator.” The Virginian-Pilot, June 20, 1993. 〕 Her relationship with Frinks brought him into the social sphere of the white community in Tabor City, exposing him to ideas and knowledge that black children rarely experience. During that time, the Jim Crow Laws, racial segregation laws that were enacted after the Reconstruction period which segregated public facilities in the former Confederate states, were widely observed in the South and strict racial segregation was enforced below the Mason–Dixon line. Having learned about the South’s racial culture, attempts at desegregation, and the rise of prominent black leaders from Lewis, Frinks developed ideas of rebellion against the Jim Crow Laws and discrimination in the South at a young age. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Golden Frinks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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