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Image of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) charter application for a Columbus, Georgia branch. This document was signed in 1939 by Thomas Brewer, a local physician and political activist.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.
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  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Physicians
  4. African Americans
  5. Civic Leaders
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Columbus
  9. Forms
  10. Georgia
  11. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  12. Physicians

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