HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) – 60 years ago, one lesser-known civil rights leader gave his life to save someone else’s.
Jonathan Daniels was studying to become an Episcopal priest during the Civil Rights Era.
On August 20, 1965, Daniels was in a corner store in Hayneville when sixteen-year-old Ruby Sales walked in. A man with a gun approached Sales, cursing at the child and threatening her because of her skin color…