On this day, April 23, in 1963, a former U.S. Marine and postal worker from Baltimore was shot and killed in Alabama during a one-man march to deliver a letter to the Mississippi governor urging the end of racial segregation.
William Lewis Moore, who was white, wore a sandwich board, “Turn toward Peace.” He never made it to the governor’s mansion. About 80 miles into his trip, he was shot twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.
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