Earl Shinhoster

Earl Shinhoster

Earl T. Shinhoster, was a Black civil rights activist, in Savannah, Georgia.

Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994-95, he served as Interim Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Shinhoster died near Montgomery, Alabama in a car collision in 2000. [ [http://www.sip.armstrong.edu/CivilRightsMuseum/info.html The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum] ]

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution [ [http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2001_02/fulltext/hr182.htm House Resolution 182 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge] , Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001] [ [http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr6.htm Senate Resolution 6 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge] , Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001] to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.

Footnotes

ee also

* Dorothy Barnes Pelote
* Curtis Cooper (civil rights leader)
* Georgia General Assembly
* Ralph Mark Gilbert
* Savannah, Georgia
* W. W. Law


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