Lawrence Guyot

Lawrence Guyot
Lawrence Guyot Jr.was an American civil rights activist who was the director of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth17 July 1939
believe creative people projects responsibility
I believe it's our responsibility when we find young, creative people to make their projects our project. I don't think of this as his play; I look at this as our play.
capital city congress fight full leading vote voting
While residents in Maryland's capital city have a vote in Congress, I am leading the fight for residents in the nation's capital to get full voting representation in Congress. The fight continues.
given good matched speech
It was a good thing that I was in jail, because there is no way that I could have matched the speech given by Fannie Lou Hamer,
This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi,