Emphasis Preaching Journal

In the civil rights movement of the 1960s, one of the key strategies of empowerment for southern African-Americans was voter registration. Many from the South as well as from the North converged on southern counties and parishes to encourage and facilitate local blacks to become registered voters. It was not uncommon for some of these workers to be killed by whites who did not want to enfranchise what in some areas was the majority race. One such worker who lost his life in Mississippi in this cause was Herbert Lee.