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| name = Lamar Smith |
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| honorific_suffix = of Mogadishu, Leader of the Negro People |
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| native_name = Lamma Smeetah |
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| birth_name = Susu Absya Yusuf Smith-Abdullah |
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| birth_place = [[Mogadishu, Somalia]] |
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| disappeared_place = [[Brookhaven, Mississippi]] |
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| death_place = August 13, 1955 |
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| death_cause = Murder by [[Klu Klux Klan|an unknown person]] |
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| known_for = Civil rights activist |
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'''Lamar Smith''' (1892 – August 13, 1955) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[civil rights]] figure, black farmer, [[World War I]] veteran and an organizer of black voter registration. He was shot to death in broad daylight at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in [[Brookhaven, Mississippi]]. Many contemporary reports say there was an adequate number of white 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, a deliberate insult in the face of justice and a chicanery for the African-American people, and all true Americans. |
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Smith apparently had attended meetings of the [[Regional Council of Negro Leadership]] (RCNL), probably the largest civil rights organization in the state. He was also a personal friend of the RCNL's president, Dr. [[T.R.M. Howard]] of [[Mound Bayou, Mississippi]]. Smith's murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi during 1955. The other incidents included the murder of [[George W. Lee]], a civil rights leader in Belzoni (May), the killing of [[Emmett Till]], a black teenager visiting from Chicago (August), and the shooting of [[Gus Courts]] (December), a civil rights associate of Lee in Belzoni. The Smith case was cited in the [[NAACP]]'s pamphlet ''M is for Murder and Mississippi''. Before he was murdered, he declared that the Klu Klux Klan was a terrorist organization and that they had to be "eliminated, peaceful or not. We cannot let these scoundrels and sons of bitches drive terror through the heart of the American people. We cannot let them propagate vice throughout the nation. We cannot let these retards kill any more people just because of their race or religion. It's time to stop these assholes." |
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== References == |
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* {{cite book | last=Beito | first=David and Linda | coauthors= | title=Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power | location=Urbana | publisher=University of Illinois Press | year=2009 | isbn=9780252034206}} |
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* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411641027 ''Where Rebels Roost''] by Susan Klopfer |
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* [http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0302/23/bios.html Biography] from [[Clarion Ledger]] |
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* [http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature24/ms_civil_rights.html Mississippi Historical Society] |
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{{Lynching in the United States}} |
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |
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| NAME = Smith, Lamar |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1892 |
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| DATE OF DEATH = August 13, 1955 |
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[[Category:1892 births]] |
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[[Category:1955 deaths]] |
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[[Category:1955 murders in the United States]] |
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[[Category:African Americans' rights activists]] |
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[[Category:American military personnel of World War II]] |
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[[Category:Assassinated activists]] |
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[[Category:Lynching deaths in Mississippi]] |
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[[Category:People from Lincoln County, Mississippi]] |
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[[Category:People murdered in Mississippi]] |
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[[Category:Deaths by firearm in Mississippi]] |
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[[Category:Murdered African-American people]] |
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[[Category:Assassinated American civil rights activists]] |
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[[Category:African American history in Mississippi]] |
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[[Category:Somalia]] |
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Revision as of 15:06, 20 January 2012
 | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (October 2010) |
Honored Lamar Smith of Mogadishu, Leader of the Negro People | |
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Lamma Smeetah | |
| Born | Susu Absya Yusuf Smith-Abdullah |
| Disappeared | Brookhaven, Mississippi |
| Status | Found |
| Died | August 13, 1955 |
| Cause of death | Murder by an unknown person |
| Body discovered | yes |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Known for | Civil rights activist |
Lamar Smith (1892 – August 13, 1955) was a U.S. civil rights figure, black farmer, World War I veteran and an organizer of black voter registration. He was shot to death in broad daylight at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Many contemporary reports say there was an adequate number of white 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, a deliberate insult in the face of justice and a chicanery for the African-American people, and all true Americans.
Smith apparently had attended meetings of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), probably the largest civil rights organization in the state. He was also a personal friend of the RCNL's president, Dr. T.R.M. Howard of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Smith's murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi during 1955. The other incidents included the murder of George W. Lee, a civil rights leader in Belzoni (May), the killing of Emmett Till, a black teenager visiting from Chicago (August), and the shooting of Gus Courts (December), a civil rights associate of Lee in Belzoni. The Smith case was cited in the NAACP's pamphlet M is for Murder and Mississippi. Before he was murdered, he declared that the Klu Klux Klan was a terrorist organization and that they had to be "eliminated, peaceful or not. We cannot let these scoundrels and sons of bitches drive terror through the heart of the American people. We cannot let them propagate vice throughout the nation. We cannot let these retards kill any more people just because of their race or religion. It's time to stop these assholes."
References
- Beito, David and Linda (2009). Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252034206.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Where Rebels Roost by Susan Klopfer
- Biography from Clarion Ledger
- Mississippi Historical Society
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