Rutledge Pearson
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Rutledge Pearson (September 9, 1929 - May 1967) was an educator, civil rights leader and human rights activist.
Pearson served as president of the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP during the 1960's.
In May of 1967, he was mysteriously killed in a car accident on the way to organize Laundry workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
