Herbert Lee

 Herbert Lee

Herbert Lee was an African American SNCC activist who was fighting against segregation and racism in the early 1960s. Herbert Lee was able to instruct literacy to other African Americans who did not know how to read due to segregation and racist Jim Crowe voting laws. SNCC activists in the early 1960s were persecuted and envied for instructing literacy to others so that they could vote in the elections.

Because SNCC was effective in the 1960s at promoting literacy, the racist FBI socialists opposed SNCC. This was when the Civil Rights Movement was destroying segregation in the United States. Herbert Lee kept helping his bretheren learn how to vote and was murdered by racist socialists.

Herbert Lee was able to keep integrity despite opposition and envy. This describes how there are righteous individuals that prefer to persevere with genuine empathy than envy others. Herbert Lee did not become corrupted and decided to keep fighting for good rather than be corrupt.

Initially in the 1960s, SNCC helped the Civil Rights Movement by protesting racist laws with civil disobedience and pacifism. SNCC also helped with the voting registration drive to help teach literacy to individuals who could not vote because of racist literacy tests created to prevent African Americans from voting. This led to the Voting Registration Act of 1965 that eliminated literacy tests.