Settlement reached in death of civil rights leader
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Posted 12:00PM on Wednesday 8th January 2003 ( 22 years ago )
TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA - A settlement has been reached with two companies in a blowout and wreck that killed civil rights leader Earl Shinhoster and injured two others. <br>
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Circuit Judge Howard Bryan said terms of the settlement reached Wednesday with Ford Motor Company and Bridgestone-Firestone tires are confidential. <br>
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The settlement comes just as a jury was to be picked in the trial of a lawsuit in Tuskegee, Alabama. <br>
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The agreement closes the case brought against the companies by Shinhoster's widow, Ruby Shinhoster, and Samimah Azia and Ademah Hackshaw. <br>
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Shinhoster was an official with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta. He was a passenger along with Aziz in a Ford Explorer being driven by Hackshaw when a tire blew out and the Explorer wrecked June 11, 2000, on Interstate 85 near Tuskegee. <br>
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A settlement of the claims by Aziz and Hackshaw was reached Monday.
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