Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20th, 1939 - August 20th, 1965) was a white man who sided with the African American community during the civil rights movement. He was Episcopalian, from New Hampshire, and of Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and German descent. He was even a member of an African American church where Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister of. He also graduated from Harvard. For being on the same side as the African Americans, he was assassinated in 1965 by a shotgun-wielding special county deputy from Alabama named Tom Coleman, when he pushed then 17 year old Ruby Sales out of the way, taking the bullet that was meant for her.