E. H. Hurst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

E. H. Hurst

American politician

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Liberty, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1990

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Eugene Hunter Hurst Jr.
(October 21, 1908 – April 20, 1990) was an American dairy farmer, politician and murderer in Amite County, Mississippi, elected as a Democrat to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1959.
He supported segregation and opposed the civil rights movement, which expanded in the early 1960s. Hurst is noted for killing Herbert Lee by fatally shooting him mid-day on September 25, 1961 at a cotton gin.
Despite witnesses of the unprovoked attack, Hurst was ruled to have acted in self-defense by the all-white jury at the inquest held that day.
Lee was an African-American married man with nine children who was a charter member of the NAACP in the county, and had been trying to register black voters in Liberty, the small hometown of both men.