United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.987711950Founder of the local NAACP chapter in Columbus, Thomas Brewer (pictured ca. 1950) is remembered for orchestrating the legal challenge to Georgia's all-white primary system.Photograph of Thomas Brewer, founder of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Columbus, Georgia. He looks left and smiles widely.Brewer, a physician, spearheaded the drive for racial equality in Columbus from the 1920s until his assassination on February 18, 1956, which was widely believed to have resulted from his political activism. Brewer, whose death had considerable impact on local race relations, is recognized as a martyr of the national civil rights movement.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/thomas-brewer-1894-1956Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights workers--Georgia--ColumbusAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--ColumbusAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--ColumbusCivil rights--Georgia--ColumbusMen--Georgia--ColumbusAfrican American men--Georgia--ColumbusPhysicians--Georgia--ColumbusAfrican American physicians--Georgia--ColumbusCivic leaders--Georgia--ColumbusAfrican American civic leaders--Georgia--ColumbusNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleMurder victims--Georgia--ColumbusThomas BrewerStillImage