Charles McLaurin (born in 1941) is an American civil rights organizer.[1] He moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi, in 1962 as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to help alleviate injustices and expose the activities of James Eastland against African Americans.[2] He helped register African Americans to vote and was part of the Freedom Summer movement. His efforts met with retribution and violence.[3] He worked with Fannie Lou Hamer. He was jailed.[4]

He wrote notes on organizing.[5] He later lived in Indianola.[3]

The PBS show American Experience includes a segment where he revisits towns in rural Mississippi he worked in organizing voters.[4] He was interviewed in 2015.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "McLaurin, Charles". Mississippi Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Moye, J. Todd (2006-03-08). Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-7670-1.
  3. 1 2 "Charles McLaurin".
  4. 1 2 "Charles McLaurin - "The Foot Soldier" | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org.
  5. ↑ "Notes on organizing by Charles McLaurin / Judy Richardson Papers / Duke Digital Repository". Duke Digital Collections.
  6. ↑ Charles McLaurin oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Indianola, Mississippi, 2015 December 05.
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