By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Leni Sinclair/Getty Images Lawrence Guyot (pictured), a civil rights advocate, was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, on July 17, 1935. Guyot's brutal beatings at the hands of white police officers as a young civil rights activist helped lay the groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His life as […]

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