Lawrence Guyot Biography

American activist (1939-2012)

Lawrence Guyot Jr. (July 17, 1939 – November 23, 2012) was an American civil rights activist and the director of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964.

Biography

Guyot was a native of P* Christian, Mississippi, where he was raised Catholic.

He joined the Freedom Movement in Mississippi in 1961, when he was a student at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry in 1963. Guyot also directed the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) project in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and later became director of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party via the 1963 Freedom Ballot of 80,000 participants and the Summer Project of 1964. The major accomplishment of SNCC/MFDP was to establish a close bond with the United States Department of Justice. In 1966, Guyot ran for Congress as an anti-war candidate.

Guyot was severely physically beaten many times, including while at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, in the early 1960s. He has stated that his *s were burned with sticks by police officers.

Guyot helped lay the groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He received a degree in law in 1971 from Rutgers University, and then moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the election of Marion Barry as mayor in 1978.

Muhammad Ali, the world boxing champion, was a good friend of Lawrence Guyot.

Guyot has appeared in many do*entaries such as Eyes on the Prize, released in 1987. From the 1990s until the mid-2000s, Guyot often appeared as a commentator on Fox News, defending the legacy of the civil rights movement in heated discussions with hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. He continued speaking out on voting rights issues and encouraged people to vote for President Barack Obama. Until his retirement in 2004, Guyot was a program monitor for the D.C. Department of Human Services’ Office of Early Childhood Development.

His daughter Dr Julie Guyot-Diangone announced on November 24, 2012, that her father had died at home, in Mount Rainier, Maryland. She said he had had heart problems and had suffered from diabetes.

References

    Further reading

    • Julian Bond (December 30, 2010). "Lawrence Guyot oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in Washington, D.C., 2010-12-30" (Video, Web). Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

    External links

    • SNCC Digital Gateway: Lawrence Guyot, Do*entary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & gr*roots organizing from the inside-out
    • Lawrence Guyot, Jr. Archival Collection Finding Aid Washingtoniana Collection DCPL
    Activist
    groups
    • Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
    • Atlanta Student Movement
    • Black Panther Party
    • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
    • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
    • Committee for Freedom Now
    • Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
      • An Appeal for Human Rights
    • Council for United Civil Rights Leadership
    • Council of Federated Organizations
    • Dallas County Voters League
    • Deacons for Defense and Justice
    • Georgia Council on Human Relations
    • Highlander Folk School
    • Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
    • Lowndes County Freedom Organization
    • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
    • Montgomery Improvement *ociation
    • NAACP
      • Youth Council
    • Nashville Student Movement
    • Nation of Islam
    • Northern Student Movement
    • National Council of Negro Women
    • National Urban League
    • Operation Breadbasket
    • Regional Council of Negro Leadership
    • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
    • Southern Regional Council
    • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
    • The Freedom Singers
    • United Auto Workers (UAW)
    • Wednesdays in Mississippi
    • Women's Political Council
    Activists
    • Ralph Abernathy
    • Victoria Gray Adams
    • Zev Aelony
    • Mathew Ahmann
    • Muhammad Ali
    • William G. Anderson
    • Gwendolyn Armstrong
    • Arnold Aronson
    • Ella Baker
    • James Baldwin
    • Marion Barry
    • Daisy Bates
    • Harry Belafonte
    • James Bevel
    • Claude Black
    • Gloria Blackwell
    • Randolph Blackwell
    • Unita Blackwell
    • Ezell Blair Jr.
    • Joanne Bland
    • Julian Bond
    • Joseph E. Boone
    • William Holmes Borders
    • Amelia Boynton
    • Bruce Boynton
    • Raylawni Branch
    • Stanley Branche
    • Ruby Bridges
    • Aurelia Browder
    • H. Rap Brown
    • Ralph Bunche
    • Guy Carawan
    • Stokely Carmichael
    • Johnnie Carr
    • James Chaney
    • J. L. Chestnut
    • Shirley Chisholm
    • Colia Lafayette Clark
    • Ramsey Clark
    • Septima Clark
    • Xernona Clayton
    • Eldridge Cleaver
    • Kathleen Cleaver
    • Charles E. Cobb Jr.
    • Annie Lee Cooper
    • Dorothy Cotton
    • Claudette Colvin
    • Vernon Dahmer
    • Jonathan Daniels
    • Abraham Lincoln Davis
    • Angela Davis
    • Joseph DeLaine
    • Dave Dennis
    • Annie Devine
    • Patricia Stephens Due
    • Joseph Ellwanger
    • Charles Evers
    • Medgar Evers
    • Myrlie Evers-Williams
    • Chuck *er
    • James Farmer
    • Walter Fauntroy
    • James Forman
    • Marie Foster
    • Golden Frinks
    • Andrew Goodman
    • Robert Graetz
    • Fred Gray
    • Jack Greenberg
    • Dick Gregory
    • Lawrence Guyot
    • Prathia Hall
    • Fannie Lou Hamer
    • Fred Hampton
    • William E. Harbour
    • Vincent Harding
    • Dorothy Height
    • Audrey Faye Hendricks
    • Lola Hendricks
    • Aaron Henry
    • Oliver Hill
    • Donald L. Hollowell
    • James Hood
    • Myles Horton
    • Zilphia Horton
    • T. R. M. Howard
    • Ruby Hurley
    • Cecil Ivory
    • Jesse Jackson
    • Jimmie Lee Jackson
    • Richie Jean Jackson
    • T. J. Jemison
    • Esau Jenkins
    • Barbara Rose Johns
    • Vernon Johns
    • Frank Minis Johnson
    • Clarence Jones
    • J. Charles Jones
    • Matthew Jones
    • Vernon Jordan
    • Tom Kahn
    • Clyde Kennard
    • A. D. King
    • C.B. King
    • Coretta Scott King
    • Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Martin Luther King Sr.
    • Bernard Lafayette
    • James Lawson
    • Bernard Lee
    • Sanford R. Leigh
    • Jim Letherer
    • Stanley Levison
    • John Lewis
    • Viola Liuzzo
    • Z. Alexander Looby
    • Joseph Lowery
    • Clara Luper
    • Danny Lyon
    • Malcolm X
    • Mae Mallory
    • Vivian Malone
    • Bob Mants
    • Thurgood Marshall
    • Benjamin Mays
    • Franklin McCain
    • Charles McDew
    • Ralph McGill
    • Floyd McKissick
    • Joseph McNeil
    • James Meredith
    • William Ming
    • Jack Minnis
    • Amzie Moore
    • Cecil B. Moore
    • Douglas E. Moore
    • Harriette Moore
    • Harry T. Moore
    • Queen Mother Moore
    • William Lewis Moore
    • Irene Morgan
    • Bob Moses
    • William Moyer
    • Elijah Muhammad
    • Diane Nash
    • Charles Neblett
    • Huey P. Newton
    • Edgar Nixon
    • Jack O'Dell
    • James Orange
    • Rosa Parks
    • James Peck
    • Charles Person
    • Homer Plessy
    • Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
    • Fay Bellamy Powell
    • Rodney N. Powell
    • Al Raby
    • Lincoln Ragsdale
    • A. Philip Randolph
    • George Raymond
    • George Raymond Jr.
    • Bernice Johnson Reagon
    • Cordell Reagon
    • James Reeb
    • Frederick D. Reese
    • Walter Reuther
    • Gloria Richardson
    • David Richmond
    • Bernice Robinson
    • Jo Ann Robinson
    • Angela Russell
    • Bayard Rustin
    • Bernie Sanders
    • Michael Schwerner
    • Bobby Seale
    • Cleveland Sellers
    • Charles Sherrod
    • Alexander D. Shimkin
    • Fred Shuttlesworth
    • Modjeska Monteith Simkins
    • Glenn E. Smiley
    • A. Maceo Smith
    • Kelly Miller Smith
    • Mary Louise Smith
    • Maxine Smith
    • Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
    • Charles Kenzie Steele
    • Hank Thomas
    • Dorothy Tillman
    • A. P. Tureaud
    • Hartman Turnbow
    • Albert Turner
    • C. T. Vivian
    • Wyatt Tee Walker
    • Hollis Watkins
    • Walter Francis White
    • Roy Wilkins
    • Hosea Williams
    • Kale Williams
    • Robert F. Williams
    • Andrew Young
    • Whitney Young
    • Sammy Younge Jr.
    • Bob Zellner
    • James Zwerg
    By region
    • Omaha, Nebraska
    • South Carolina
    Movement
    songs
    • "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
    • "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus"
    • "*baya"
    • "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
    • "Oh, Freedom"
    • "This Little Light of Mine"
    • "We Shall Not Be Moved"
    • "We Shall Overcome"
    • "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)"
    Influences
    • Nonviolence
      • Padayatra
    • Sermon on the Mount
    • Mahatma Gandhi
      • Ahimsa
      • Satyagraha
    • The Kingdom of God Is Within You
    • Frederick Dougl*
    • W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Mary McLeod Bethune
    Related
    • Jim Crow laws
    • Lynching in the United States
    • Plessy v. Ferguson
      • Separate but equal
    • Buchanan v. Warley
    • Hocutt v. Wilson
    • Sweatt v. Painter
    • Hernandez v. Texas
    • Loving v. Virginia
    • African-American women in the movement
    • Jews in the civil rights movement
    • Fifth Circuit Four
    • 16th Street Baptist Church
    • Kelly Ingram Park
    • A.G. Gaston Motel
    • Bethel Baptist Church
    • Brown Chapel
    • Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
    • Holt Street Baptist Church
    • Edmund Pettus Bridge
    • March on Washington Movement
    • African-American churches attacked
    • List of lynching victims in the United States
    • Freedom Schools
    • Freedom songs
    • Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
      • "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
    • Voter Education Project
    • 1960s counterculture
    • African American founding fathers of the United States
    • Eyes on the Prize
    Legacy
    • In popular culture
    • Birmingham Civil Rights Ins*ute
    • Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
    • Civil Rights Memorial
    • Civil Rights Movement Archive
    • Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
    • Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
    • Freedom Rides Museum
    • Freedom Riders National Monument
    • King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
      • other King memorials
    • Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
    • National Civil Rights Museum
    • National Voting Rights Museum
    • St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument
    Noted
    historians
    • Taylor Branch
    • Clayborne Carson
    • John Dittmer
    • Michael Eric Dyson
    • Chuck *er
    • Adam Fairclough
    • David Garrow
    • David Halberstam
    • Vincent Harding
    • Steven F. Lawson
    • Doug McAdam
    • Diane McWhorter
    • Charles M. Payne
    • Thomas E. Ricks
    • Timothy Tyson
    • Akinyele Umoja
    • Movement photographers
    :Civil rights movement portal

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Lawrence Guyot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.