Ernest McBride Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetErnest McBride Sr.
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1909
Place of Birth: North Carrollton, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 05-May-2007
Profession: baseball player
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Ernest McBride Sr.
- Ernest Samuel McBride Sr.
- (November 20, 1909 – May 5, 2007) was an African American civil rights activist and community leader based in Long Beach, California.
- He fought to improve the working prospects and conditions of African Americans in the shipyards, grocery stores, housing, police and fire departments in Long Beach.
- He was a co-founder of the Long Beach chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
- Like Martin Luther King Jr., McBride employed Mahatma Gandhi's model of peaceful protest to achieve civil rights gains.
- He became a target of the FBI's CONINTELPRO, which targeted many of the country's civil rights organizations and leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr.
- - most famously resulting in the FBI - King Suicide Letter.
- McBride's legacy is memorialized in numerous awards, historic land marking of his home, and the naming of a high school and park.
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