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TIL of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Daniels was murdered by a shotgun-wielding county deputy named Tom Coleman in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of the young Black civil rights activist.

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