3. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, was born March 20, 1939 in Keene, New Hampshire. Daniels was an Episcopal seminarian born the son of a family doctor and a language teacher (Encyclopedia of Alabama).

5. In 1961, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute as valedictorian. Afterwards, he studied literature for a short period of time at Harvard University (Encyclopedia of Alabama).

6. Daniels once doubted his faith, but through studies he decided to become devoted to his service in the Episcopal Church (Encyclopedia of Alabama).

11. Martin Luther King Jr. asked clergy members to become more involved in the Civil rights movement, and Daniels was quick to respond and traveled to Alabama in order to help with voting registration for African Americans (VMI Archives).

13. Jonathan Daniels along with twenty - two others were arrested in August 1965 for participating in a demonstration for voters rights in Fort Deposit, Alabama. They were transferred to the county jail in Hayneville after being arrested (VMI Archives).

15. They were released on August 20 th. Shortly after, Daniels and Richard Morrisroe, a Catholic priest went with two black teenagers, Joyce Bailey and Ruby Sales, to buy a coke at a store in Hayneville (VMI Archives).

17. Before entering the store, they were met by a construction worker and a part time deputy sheriff, named Tom Coleman. Coleman was carrying a shotgun… (VMI Archives).

19. Just moments later Daniels lay dead on the floor, after stepping in front of the shotgun blast intended for Ruby Sales. His Murder received very little to no news coverage (Presidential Recordings Program).

22. “His alledged killer, a former deputy sheriff, was charged with manslaughter. Claiming self defense, Thomas Coleman insisted that Daniels and Morrisroe threatened him with a knife and gun.” (Episcopal Archives).

23. According to the Episcopal Archives, after being tried by an all WHITE jury, Coleman was found ‘innocent’.

24. Presidential Recording’s Program states. “Daniels was at least the 22 nd person killed in the civil rights struggle by white supremacists since 1963. Sixteen of the victims were black, and only a few of those cases received national attention.”

25. Daniels little ‘group’ was about 100 yards from the jail heading towards to Cash Store for Coca- Cola as Sales recalls, when Coleman called her a “black b*tch” aimed his shotgun as Jon pulled her back (West Virginia Dailey News).

27. On account of Seabury Press, NY. “Shortly before his death Daniels wrote, ‘I lost fear in the black belt when I began to know in my Bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's death and Resurrection, that in the only sense that really matters I am already dead, and my life is hid with Christ in God’.”

29. “Stokley Carmichael said, ‘He had an abundance of strength that comes from the inside that he could give to people. The people of Lowndes County realized that with the strength they got from Jon Daniels they had to carry on, they had to carry on.” (City of Keene, New Hampshire).

31. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, ‘One of the most heroic Christian Deeds of which I have heard in my entire ministry was performed by Jonathan Daniel’s,’”…. (VMI Archives).