Gilbert R. Mason

Gilbert R Mason, Sr (October 7, 1928 – July 8, 2006), was a civil rights leader and physician from Biloxi, Mississippi. He was born on October 7, 1928, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Willie Atwood Mason and Alean Jackson Mason. He served as the vice president of the Mississippi Conference of the NAACP for 33 years. He was an associate of Medgar Evers. Mason was with Evers the Sunday before Evers was killed. He served as a pallbearer at the Evers funeral.) He was the president of the Biloxi branch of the NAACP. Mason is most famous for organizing and participating in the first nonviolent civil disobedience action, the wade-ins at Biloxi beach that started in 1959 as a protest to the segregation of the waterfront.^[1]

Mason's contribution to the civil rights movement was commemorated in May 2009 with the state of Mississippi designating a section of U.S. Highway 90 near Biloxi as the "Dr. Gilbert Mason Sr. Memorial Highway."^[2]

Mason died on July 8, 2006, in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi.

References

↑ Mason, Gilbert R. (2000). Beaches Blood, and Ballots. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1578062780.
↑ Newsom, Michael (May 17, 2009). "Marker Honors Struggle of Many". Sun Herald. Biloxi, MS. Retrieved October 4, 2016 – via Newsbank.

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)

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1954–1959	Brown v. Board of Education Bolling v. Sharpe Briggs v. Elliott Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County Gebhart v. Belton Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery Bus Boycott Browder v. Gayle Mansfield school desegregation 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom "Give Us the Ballot" Royal Ice Cream Sit-in Little Rock Nine National Guard blockade Civil Rights Act of 1957 Kissing Case Biloxi Wade-Ins

1960–1963	Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Civil Rights Act of 1960 Gomillion v. Lightfoot Boynton v. Virginia Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address Freedom Rides attacks Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot 1963 Birmingham campaign Children's Crusade Letter from Birmingham Jail Birmingham riot 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Stand in the Schoolhouse Door John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address March on Washington "I Have a Dream" St. Augustine movement "segregation now, segregation forever"

1964–1968	Twenty-fourth Amendment Bloody Tuesday Freedom Summer workers' murders Civil Rights Act of 1964 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches "How Long, Not Long" Voting Rights Act of 1965 Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections March Against Fear White House Conference on Civil Rights Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement Memphis Sanitation Strike King assassination funeral riots Poor People's Campaign Civil Rights Act of 1968

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