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TIL of William Lewis Moore, a white man who fought for civil rights. He planned to walk from Chattanooga, TN, to Jackson, MS, to ask Gov. Ross Barnett to change the state’s racial hierarchy. He planned to walk 40 miles a day for 10 days but was shot dead along the way - the killer was never caught.

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