Monroe County

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Spencer Eckford is a 66-year-old black man who died on July 21st in Monroe County, Mississippi.

He dies in Monroe County, Mississippi, after being tased in the booking room by sheriffs.

And then at some point he was rushed to the hospital in, we believe, in the sheriff's custody, not even in the ambulance services.

And he died before he was even admitted to the hospital.

It's pervasive throughout Mississippi, and it's represented in Spencer Eckford's death.

And that on behalf of Black Lawyers for Justice, Attorney Shabazz and Attorney Ishmael Muhammad, that we're going to get to the bottom of what happened to Spencer Eckford.

That right now with his autopsy, autopsy pending from the Monroe County coroner and the state.

Here's what we know.

So Thomas Coleman was born around 1833, most likely in Mississippi, possibly on a plantation in Monroe County.

His mother is probably a woman enslaved to the Crosby family, and it's likely that Thomas took the surname Coleman from her, from her enslaver, Elizabeth Coleman Crosby's father, Joseph Coleman.

That's how it worked.

You didn't get to choose your name.

Your name was someone else's property too.

Then around 1844, LDS missionaries came through Monroe County, Mississippi.

Nancy Bankhead, maiden name Crosby, converted.