Cause of slain civil rights activist still resonates, 50 years later

(The Christian Science Monitor) Fifty years have passed since the murder of civil rights activist Jonathan Daniels by an angry segregationist in Lowndes County, Alabama, but those who knew Daniels say his case still resonates today. 

Daniels was a white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire who had traveled to Lowndes County to register blacks to vote during the civil rights movement. He was fatally shot in the chest in 1965 by Tom Coleman, a white highway engineer in favor of segregation. 

Coleman was acquitted by a jury of 12 white men after a three-day trial, eliciting outraged reactions from elected officials across the state and country.