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Earl Theodore Shinhoster (July 5, 1950 - June 11, 2000) is a Black civil rights activist in Savannah, Georgia.
Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950 to Nadine and Willie Shinhoster, he is an alumnus of Morehouse College and Cleveland State University. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994-1995, 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 crash in 2000. He survived by a wife and son.
In 2001, Georgia Legislative issued a resolution to designate Earl T. Shinhoster and Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.
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Also see
- Dorothy Barnes Pelote
- Curtis Cooper (civil rights leader)
- Georgia General Assembly
- Ralph Mark Gilbert
- Savannah, Georgia W. W. Law
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