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TIL of Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopal priest who was killed in 1965 after he threw himself in front of a shotgun blast targeting a seventeen-year-old black girl. Both he and the girl had been peacefully protesting for civil rights when they were attacked by a deputy.

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