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Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 - August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian, martyred for his part in the American civil rights movement. His death helped galvanize support for the civil rights movement within the Episcopal church.
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Born in New Hampshire, Jonathan Myrick Daniels was the child of a Congregationalist physician. Daniels joined the Episcopal Church as a young man and considered a career in the ministry as early as high school. He attended the Virginia Military Institute after graduating from high school, where he began to question his religious faith during his sophomore year, possibly because his father died and his sister suffered an extended illness at the same time. He graduated as Valedictorian of his class and, in the fall of 1961, entered Harvard University to study English Literature. In the spring of 1962, Daniels was attending an Easter service at the Church of the Advent in Boston, and felt his doubt disappear, to be replaced with a renewed conviction that he was being called to serve God. Soon after, he decided to pursue ordination, and after a period of working out family financial problems, he applied and was accepted to Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, starting his studies in 1963 and expecting to graduate in 1966.
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