C.C. Bryant, a civil rights veteran whose community service in southwest Mississippi extended well beyond the turbulent 1960s, has died. He was 90. Bryant died Sunday at his home in McComb, Miss. Bryant and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee launched a voter registration drive in southwest Mississippi in 1961. In the 1960s, he endured jail and threats, including the bombing of his family home and barber shop. Bryant once described McComb's violent summer of 1964 as "hell on earth."
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