Mississippi
Mississippi civil rights activist ‘Bud’ McGee dies at 81
GREENWOOD, Miss. – William “Bud” McGee, a Mississippi civil rights activist who labored to register Black voters within the Sixties, has died. He was 81.
The Greenwood Commonwealth reviews McGee died of coronary heart failure on Could 24 at his residence in Greenwood. A funeral was scheduled for Saturday.
Within the small city of Itta Bena, three historic markers point out McGee’s efforts as a member of the Pupil Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which organized younger individuals to make use of nonviolent protests towards segregation.
In June 1963, an attacker used tear fuel at a church the place McGee and others have been assembly.
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