Burnham, Louis E.
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Name (Latin)
Burnham, Louis E.
Other forms of name
Burnham, Louis
Date of birth
1915-09-29
Date of death
1960-02-12
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Civil rights workers
Editors
Journalists
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Behind the lynching of Emmet Louis Till, 1955:t.p. (Louis Burnham) t.p. verso (Louis E. Burnham)
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Burnham, Louis; Louis Everett Burnham; civil rights activist, journalist; born 29 September 1915 in Barbados; raised in Harlem, New York; graduated from City College of New York (1936); served as president of Frederick Douglass Society, and helped organize the American Student Union; worked to end the discrimination and segregation of the Jim Crow era (1940s); helped to organize sit-ins at lunch counters; wrote articles depicting the injustices of Jim Crow; was an organizational secretary for Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) in Alabama; worked on presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace, Progressive Party (1948); co-founded the newspaper Freedom (1950s); died 12 February 1960 in New York, N.Y. United States)
- Smash the chains, 1946?:p. 2 of cover (Louis E. Burnham, Executive Secretary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress)
- OCLC, Feb. 22, 2002(hdg.: Burnham, Louis E.; Burnham, Louis E., 1915 or 16-1960; usage: Louis E. Burnham, Louis Burnham)