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Nov. 8, 1955 NAACP leader Gus Courts lying in hospital in Mound Bayou in critical condition after being shot, November 26, 1955. Credit: Library of Congress Six months after nightriders gunned down his friend and fellow civil rights leader, the Rev. George Lee, for helping Black citizens register to vote, Gus Courts dared to lead 22 Black Mississippians to vote in a tiny Delta town, which bore the nickname, “Bloody Belzoni.” Courts knew this march could mean his death, but he made the trek anyway. When he and Lee had started the first branch of the NAACP in Humphreys County in 1953, no Black Mississippian was registered to vote there. The pair decided to change that, bringing

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