Category talk:Assassinated American civil rights activists

Misuse of 'assassination'
This category uses a very loose sense of the word "assassination". Many of the people listed here were quite definitely not specifically targeted for anything that could be considered assassination, instead being killed in the heat of an already violent situation (EG Jimmy Lee Jackson) or maliciously killed simply because they were targets of opportunity (Viola Liuzzo) without anything really indicating that the murderer(s) knew who they were.

It really seems as if the word "assassinated" is being applied here to any murdered civil rights activist, perhaps as a way to add malice to the act, or importance to the victims. I think that the murder of an innocent person for their beliefs or for the color of their skin is malicious enough being called what it is without the need to obfuscate language as a way of amplifying it.178.76.142.170 (talk) 18:53, 30 July 2012 (UTC)