- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Thomas Brewer
- Date of Original:
- 1950
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Columbus
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
Civil rights--Georgia--Columbus
Men--Georgia--Columbus
African American men--Georgia--Columbus
Physicians--Georgia--Columbus
African American physicians--Georgia--Columbus
Civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus
African American civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Murder victims--Georgia--Columbus - People:
- Brewer, Thomas Hency, 1894-1956
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Founder of the local NAACP chapter in Columbus, Thomas Brewer (pictured ca. 1950) is remembered for orchestrating the legal challenge to Georgia's all-white primary system.
Photograph of Thomas Brewer, founder of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Columbus, Georgia. He looks left and smiles widely.
Brewer, a physician, spearheaded the drive for racial equality in Columbus from the 1920s until his assassination on February 18, 1956, which was widely believed to have resulted from his political activism. Brewer, whose death had considerable impact on local race relations, is recognized as a martyr of the national civil rights movement. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956/m-10537/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Columbus State University Archives
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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