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Aug 7, 2015 · Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a lesser-known martyr in the civil rights movement, was 26 when he stepped in front of a shotgun blast meant for 17-year-old Ruby Sales in Hayneville, Ala.
Aug 8, 2015 · Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a lesser-known martyr in the civil rights movement, was 26 when he stepped in front of a shotgun blast meant for 17-year-old Ruby Sales in Hayneville, Ala. That selfless act, and Daniels’ brief summer of activism in Alabama, led the Episcopal Church to recognize him as a saint in 1991.
Apr 11, 2023 · The 2023 winner of the Golden Halo award over at Lent Madness is Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights martyr who was killed in Alabama in 1965 while working to register Black voters.
In 2015, Washington National Cathedral unveiled and dedicated a sculpture of Daniels within its Human Rights Porch, designed by Chas Fagan and sculpted by stonemason Sean Callahan. Looking on at the dedication was the woman Daniels saved, Ruby Sales.
Aug 13, 2015 · Also on Aug. 16, Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., plans to focus its Sunday Forum on Daniels. His will be the newest figure added to the cathedral’s Human Rights Porch.
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Aug 16, 2015 · Jonathan Daniels was the 28th civil rights worker killed in the earlier days of the movement. He was neither the first nor the last martyr in the cause of racial justice. In recent years, months, and days we have seen other martyrs who have put their lives at risk on our behalf: the nine women and men killed in Charleston most obviously come to ...
Aug 12, 2015 · WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts seminary student who sacrificed his life for a fellow civil rights worker 50 years ago is being memorialized in limestone near the entrance of the Washington National Cathedral.
