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Earl Theodore Shinhoster (July 5, 1950 – June 11, 2000) was a Black civil rights activist in Savannah, Georgia.

Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950 to Nadine and Willie Shinhoster, he was an alumnus of Morehouse College and Cleveland State University. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994–95, 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 collision in 2000.

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.

Footnotes

1. "Earl T. Shinhoster (1950-2000)".
2. "About the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum". www.sip.armstrong.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
3. House Resolution 182 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge Archived 2005-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001
4. Senate Resolution 6 - Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and Bridge Archived 2004-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, Georgia General Assembly, April 19, 2001

See also

• Dorothy Barnes Pelote
• Curtis Cooper
• Georgia General Assembly
• Ralph Mark Gilbert
• Savannah, Georgia
• W. W. Law

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