Earl T. Shinhoster (1950–2000) was a Black civil rights activist in Savannah, Georgia.
Shinhoster was born in Savannah in 1950. As a teenager, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1994-95, he served as Interim Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Shinhoster died near Montgomery, Alabama in a car collision in 2000.
In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange and the Earl T. Shinhoster Bridge to honor him.
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