| LC control no. | n 2005077603 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nixon, Edgar Daniel |
| Variant(s) | Nixon, E. D. (Edgar Daniel) |
| Located | Montgomery (Ala.) |
| Birth date | 1899-07-12 |
| Death date | 1987-02-25 |
| Place of birth | Robinson Springs (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Montgomery (Ala.) |
| Affiliation | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Montgomery Improvement Association |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Baldwin, Lewis V. Freedom is never free, 1992: t.p. (Edgar Daniel Nixon) cover (E.D. Nixon, Sr.) p. 2, etc. (b. July 12, 1899; d. 1987) LC data base, Oct. 18, 2005 (hdg.: Nixon, Edgar Daniel) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1968 Feb. (NIXON, E. D. (1899-1987); Former treasurer, Montgomery (Alabama) Improvement Association) SSDI, May 22, 2013 (Name: Edgar Nixon; Last Residence: Montgomery, Alabama; Born: 12 July 1899; Died: Feb. 1987; State (Year) SSN issued: Railroad Board (Issued Through) (Before 1951)) African American National Biography, accessed March 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Nixon, Edgar Daniel; civil rights activist; born 12 July 1899 in Robinson Springs, Alabama, United States; received only elementary education; worked as a Pullman car porter (1923); was elected president of the new union's Montgomery local (1938); organized Alabama Voters League for voter registration for Montgomery's blacks (1943); was elected branch president (1945), and reelected (1946); was elected president of Alabama Conference of NAACP Branches (1947) and won election for president of Montgomery chapter, Progressive Democratic Association, Alabama's black Democrats (1952); died 25 February 1987 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States) |
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