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Charles McLaurin
1941–
United States
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Charles McLaurin (born in 1941) is an American civil rights organizer. 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. He helped register African Americans to vote and was part of the Freedom Summer movement.
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