Earl Shinhoster

Earl Shinhoster
Earl Shinhoster
Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
	In office; 1994–1996
Preceded by	Benjamin Chavis
Succeeded by	Kweisi Mfume (President and CEO)
Personal details
Born	July 5, 1950; Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Died	June 11, 2000 (aged 49); near Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Education	Morehouse College (BA); Cleveland State University

Earl Theodore Shinhoster (July 5, 1950 – June 11, 2000) was a Black civil rights activist in Savannah, Georgia.^[1]

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Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950 to Nadine and Willie Shinhoster, he was an alumnus of Morehouse College and Cleveland State University. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994–95, he served as interim executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Shinhoster died near Montgomery, Alabama, in a car collision in 2000.^[2]

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution^[3]^[4] to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.

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